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jbenny · 10-09-2007, 08:00 PM

I just did a test. I used Amber Palm Converter to extract the HTML from this ebook. The quote characters were not the HTML tags. I changed a few double-quotes to “ and ” and then saved the HTML file. FBReader displayed the double-quotes just fine. I'm not surprised at this, as I have seen other programs besides FBReader not display the extended characters correctly, unless the HTML tags were used. I assume that this has something to do with trying to deal with the various code pages used by different languages. The HTML tags would be unambiguous, regardless of language or code page. The characters would not.

For reference, the HTML tags for single-quotes and double-quotes are:

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10-09-2007, 08:00 PM	#3
jbenny Addict Posts: 323 Karma: 358 Join Date: May 2007 Device: Tablet PC and Nokia N800	I just did a test. I used Amber Palm Converter to extract the HTML from this ebook. The quote characters were not the HTML tags. I changed a few double-quotes to “ and ” and then saved the HTML file. FBReader displayed the double-quotes just fine. I'm not surprised at this, as I have seen other programs besides FBReader not display the extended characters correctly, unless the HTML tags were used. I assume that this has something to do with trying to deal with the various code pages used by different languages. The HTML tags would be unambiguous, regardless of language or code page. The characters would not. For reference, the HTML tags for single-quotes and double-quotes are: ‘ ’ “ ” Last edited by jbenny; 10-09-2007 at 08:02 PM.