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naltar · 03-07-2018, 07:43 AM

Hello,
Every now and then, I have this extreme idea of reading a book in a txt format AND in a foreign language, which come with plenty of diacritics. Extreme, because whenver I drop a txt book file and open it on my kobo (aura, 1st edition), foreign characters are mingled. Now, to make txt files (and diacritics) as compatible as possible, I originally them on pc as utf-8, but this is, clearly, not good enough for Kobo

So, I wonder if there a solution to this issue? Other than converting txt to epub or html, which works, of course, but that's not exactly the solution I'm after. And why not? Because I want to read in txt format, and because I like that txt is relatively clean file format, plus, strangely enough, I'm not that happy with calibre user interface, and having to dig to find the output, and having multiple formats of one file on my computer). So it's not exactly that I want to get from A to B by any means of transport, I want to get there by that rickety (?) txt bus promised by Kobo...

Regards,
n.

p.s. I had a go with Kobo chat, but as expected, it was a failure. I mean, they were being nice, but as to substance, a total failure: "try to re-download the files", "try to download via Adobe Digital Editions", and then came a double facepalm "I have not heard about utf-8 files before... I have searched for the file compatibility and do not see this file type... Books: EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, and MOBI, Text: TXT, HTML, and RTF".

03-07-2018, 07:43 AM	#1
naltar Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: none	foreign characters in txt files garbled on kobo Hello, Every now and then, I have this extreme idea of reading a book in a txt format AND in a foreign language, which come with plenty of diacritics. Extreme, because whenver I drop a txt book file and open it on my kobo (aura, 1st edition), foreign characters are mingled. Now, to make txt files (and diacritics) as compatible as possible, I originally them on pc as utf-8, but this is, clearly, not good enough for Kobo So, I wonder if there a solution to this issue? Other than converting txt to epub or html, which works, of course, but that's not exactly the solution I'm after. And why not? Because I want to read in txt format, and because I like that txt is relatively clean file format, plus, strangely enough, I'm not that happy with calibre user interface, and having to dig to find the output, and having multiple formats of one file on my computer). So it's not exactly that I want to get from A to B by any means of transport, I want to get there by that rickety (?) txt bus promised by Kobo... Regards, n. p.s. I had a go with Kobo chat, but as expected, it was a failure. I mean, they were being nice, but as to substance, a total failure: "try to re-download the files", "try to download via Adobe Digital Editions", and then came a double facepalm "I have not heard about utf-8 files before... I have searched for the file compatibility and do not see this file type... Books: EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, and MOBI, Text: TXT, HTML, and RTF".