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pholy · 09-04-2009, 08:24 PM

Hi Steve - It's all up to the encodings the reader and font allows. On my BeBook, all the apostrophes and curly quotes showed up as &xxxxx; thingies - boy did that make the dialog ugly! Those are valid html 4 or 5 strings, which should have been OK, but not necessary in iso-8559-1. So I ran it through Sigil, and it turned it into UTF-8, but the BeBook didn't have a Unicode font, so it just used its 8-bit encoded font. So the 16-bit byte pairs got really ugly with spaces included (another little BeBook Bug). I'm still planning some more research into BeBook limitations... I'll let you know what I find.

09-04-2009, 08:24 PM	#56
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	Hi Steve - It's all up to the encodings the reader and font allows. On my BeBook, all the apostrophes and curly quotes showed up as &xxxxx; thingies - boy did that make the dialog ugly! Those are valid html 4 or 5 strings, which should have been OK, but not necessary in iso-8559-1. So I ran it through Sigil, and it turned it into UTF-8, but the BeBook didn't have a Unicode font, so it just used its 8-bit encoded font. So the 16-bit byte pairs got really ugly with spaces included (another little BeBook Bug). I'm still planning some more research into BeBook limitations... I'll let you know what I find.