Thread: Obok cannot read special characters
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Old 12-09-2014, 06:37 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by AColobus View Post
I too am having problems with Obok encoding. I suspect it's setting encoding that can't display non-Roman characters? Having just bought a ton of Japanese books I am dismayed at inability to read them on my Kobo.*

It quite happily makes the files and they load onto my Kobo, they just seem to be mostly blank. Ellipses (...) or something very similar appear; numbers appear because they're in Roman, and images are okay. Looks like it can't handle Japanese characters, which is going to be a serious issue.

Can anyone advise, or point me at Obok's creator to ask?

*I can't even read them as bought, without playing around with DRM. It's complicated.
Did you select a Japanese font on the Kobo?
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