Thread: Kepub format questions
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Old 08-25-2019, 10:01 PM   #127
davidfor
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Originally Posted by lkstrummer View Post
I have a number of text files (.txt) that I want to import to my H2O. However, they're all contained in zip files, individually. It's simple enough to import the zips to my calibre library. When I send the zips over to my H2O, Calibre offers to convert them to a readable format, .kepub. However, the kepubs on the H2O can't display special characters like the euro and pound symbols, regardless of the font used like Kobo Mincho or Kakugo. The special characters are simply not sent through the conversion process.

But if I unzip the text files and import them as such, simple txt files, to my calibre library and send them to my H2O as txt files, the characters are perfectly readable. The problems with this are:

-the 1% txt file reading bug
-changing fonts on the txt file takes you back to the beginning of the reading material
-general lack of refinements in txt files relative to epub and kepub
-the mass operations I would have to do to unzip my files

I have the kepub output, kobo utilities, and kobotouchextended plugins - all updated to the latest versions.

Any suggestions?
Just did a quick test here and I can see both the pound and Euro symbols with most of the built in fonts for both epubs and kepubs. This is in a test book someone here created a while ago for checking just this sort of thing. That suggests it is something in the conversion from TXT to epub or kepub that calibre is doing. Check the generated files in the library to see what has been done to the characters. Or, post a snippet from the text file that includes the problems and we can have a look ourselves.
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