Thread: Obok cannot read special characters
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Old 12-09-2014, 07:13 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
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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.
If you use eschwartz link you'll get the latest obok version.

Please let us know if what tshering suggested works out.
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