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anguila · 12-11-2014, 04:17 PM

I thought there was a bug with UTF-8 plain-text files, but there wasn't one. I still want to share what happened here in case someone else runs into the same problem.

I downloaded a plain-text .txt file from gutenberg.org, which was in Spanish and encoded in UTF-8. The source of my problem was that I saved it from within the browser tab, as Firefox loaded the text file instead of prompting to download it.

The file was saved as UTF-8 but unsigned. The eReader will not recognize special characters unless the file is using signed UTF-8 for character encoding. I have verified this by testing different text files.

I went back to gutenberg.org and right-clicked the link to the text file, and chose "Save link as..." which downloaded a signed UTF-8 plain-text file. It worked perfectly in my eReader!

12-11-2014, 04:17 PM	#1
anguila Member Posts: 12 Karma: 12050 Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Argentina Device: Kobo Touch N905C	I thought there was a bug with UTF-8 plain-text files I thought there was a bug with UTF-8 plain-text files, but there wasn't one. I still want to share what happened here in case someone else runs into the same problem. I downloaded a plain-text .txt file from gutenberg.org, which was in Spanish and encoded in UTF-8. The source of my problem was that I saved it from within the browser tab, as Firefox loaded the text file instead of prompting to download it. The file was saved as UTF-8 but unsigned. The eReader will not recognize special characters unless the file is using signed UTF-8 for character encoding. I have verified this by testing different text files. I went back to gutenberg.org and right-clicked the link to the text file, and chose "Save link as..." which downloaded a signed UTF-8 plain-text file. It worked perfectly in my eReader!