Touch How to render txt and mobi in other language correctly?

[xuyn2003]

I have copied my language fonts to the kobo,
then epub goes well,
but txt and mobi books are stilled be rendered "????????" characters?
any idea to fix it?

And I found a "Kobo eReader.conf" in the directory of .kobo/kobo,
there is a line such as "CurrentLocale=en_US", I changed it to "zh_CN",
no effect yet. what this option means?

thank you for your reply.

[Nigol]

this is only a guess, but The text file should be encoded as Unicode this is not really a setting you can change. You need to convert your text file encoding. Check in the save dialog in notepad and you will see the encoding drop-box and select Unicode.

For the mobi books, I guess that calibre should convert them to the right encoding, but I can't be sure.

But several person have been able to use other character sets correctly, just make sure it is encoded to Unicode.

[xuyn2003]

Originally Posted by Nigol

this is only a guess, but The text file should be encoded as Unicode this is not really a setting you can change. You need to convert your text file encoding. Check in the save dialog in notepad and you will see the encoding drop-box and select Unicode.

For the mobi books, I guess that calibre should convert them to the right encoding, but I can't be sure.

But several person have been able to use other character sets correctly, just make sure it is encoded to Unicode.

Thank you Nigol, I have already saved my txt file as encoded with utf-8, unicode, unicode big endian, and ANSI(according to my pc locale it should be gb2312)
Unfourtunetly, all these four encoded files can't be displayed correctly.

So I guess that Kobo's default encoding method is western(propably iso8859-1),
Why it can render epub correctly is because there are encoding meta data in the epub file's head, this instructed the kobo to use right encoding.
But for the txt documents, with out the encoding meta data, kobo used the default western encoding method.

I'll going to use Calibre to test mobi files.
Thank you!

[xuyn2003]

I tested .mobi files which come from calibre, only first page was displayed, and, the displayed content is the souce code of the .mobi, not the book content, it's magic.