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keba · 08-16-2016, 06:37 AM

To answer your 2 questions:

The Calibre plugin didn't work, and since I have no clue how to create a calibre plugin, I decided to simply run the script from the command line. There, I hit the problem of not actually having Python 2 installed, so I was forced to translate your script. Also, I'm not very familiar with Python 2, so some of the encoding/decoding to and from byte arrays were a bit of a mystery to me.

As you can see in the script, I had to duplicate the 2 functions readFile() and readString() because the manifest (now called _version_) uses a different encoding (plain UTF-8 text) than the actual content of the bibles (the stuff actually in need of decoding).

UTF-8:
In readString2(), which reads the actual .yves-files, the problem was that the chr() function didn't provide the required results, so I had to create a byte-array before being able to decode it into UTF-8. I assume this may also be a Python 3 specific problem though:

Code:

byteArray2 = bytearray((x & 0xFF) for x in byteArray)
return(byteArray2.decode("utf8"))

And finally, it appears that some .yves-files contain html embedded in JSON, while others provide plain html. So I added a check for JSON, and if that is found it extracts the html, otherwise it uses the plain decoded html.

Does that answer all your questions?

08-16-2016, 06:37 AM	#21
keba Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: Kobo Aura H2O	To answer your 2 questions: The Calibre plugin didn't work, and since I have no clue how to create a calibre plugin, I decided to simply run the script from the command line. There, I hit the problem of not actually having Python 2 installed, so I was forced to translate your script. Also, I'm not very familiar with Python 2, so some of the encoding/decoding to and from byte arrays were a bit of a mystery to me. As you can see in the script, I had to duplicate the 2 functions readFile() and readString() because the manifest (now called _version_) uses a different encoding (plain UTF-8 text) than the actual content of the bibles (the stuff actually in need of decoding). UTF-8: In readString2(), which reads the actual .yves-files, the problem was that the chr() function didn't provide the required results, so I had to create a byte-array before being able to decode it into UTF-8. I assume this may also be a Python 3 specific problem though: Code: byteArray2 = bytearray((x & 0xFF) for x in byteArray) return(byteArray2.decode("utf8")) And finally, it appears that some .yves-files contain html embedded in JSON, while others provide plain html. So I added a check for JSON, and if that is found it extracts the html, otherwise it uses the plain decoded html. Does that answer all your questions?