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Old 02-18-2010, 11:29 AM   #295
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Originally Posted by davidgee View Post
I'm trying to read some texts which contain the ancient Sanskrit language which uses "diacritics" (accents and dots above and below the characters). When I use Calibre to convert the pdf documents for reading on Mobireader, these characters are wrongly produced (for example "Krsna"- with dots below the s,n and a- becomes Kåñëa). Can anyone help me please?
I'm guessing that the PDF i displaying the text with a custom embedded font. If that's so, you're not going to get a correct conversion to Mobipocket, which can only display a document with one font.

You might be able to convert to an ePub, which could embed the special font.
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