Need help - Error Viewing

mscar09 · 05-25-2015, 12:51 PM

This is a question about Calibre E-book Viewer, not the Editor. I found no sub-forum specifically on the Viewer, so I am posting here because it's about a problem rendering text and may exist in the Editor as well.

Specifically, if I open some e-books in Calibre E-Book Viewer, some characters in the text do not render properly. This often happens with characters that are Spanish or German, and have umlauts or tildes over them.

For example, here is a screen grab of a page from an e-Book viewed in Calibre E-Book Viewer: http://i.imgur.com/QvooCEy.png

Note that names with non-English characters are mangled. In this example, the letter ñ (n with a tilde over it, like in the Spanish word niño or señorita) is mangled.

This does not happen in other E-Book Viewers. Here is the same page from the same E-Book in the Adobe Digital Editions Viewer: http://i.imgur.com/n2ed0Ww.png

Adobe Digital Editions Viewer renders the characters correctly while Calibre E-Book Viewer does not.

I thought it might be a problem with the font, that perhaps the font used doesn't have the glyphs for these Spanish or German characters. But I tried changing the font to Times New Roman, which I know contains these glyphs. The problem still remains.

Does anyone know why this is happening? How do I correct this issue?

Thanks.

theducks · 05-25-2015, 01:25 PM

The Source was from Word?

The problem is with the Character Encoding specified and the devices support for the same. (you can force Calibre to use a specified codepage during a conversion. CP1252 is the one I use the most)

UTF8 is most flexible (and modern) choice to use for modern document creation

kovidgoyal · 05-25-2015, 01:55 PM

Put the correct charset declaration in the html file and you will be fine.

mscar09 · 05-25-2015, 03:43 PM

Thanks. I added a charset declaration for utf-8 and now it works fine.

Appreciate the help!

05-25-2015, 12:51 PM	#1
mscar09 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2015 Device: iPad	Need help - Error Viewing This is a question about Calibre E-book Viewer, not the Editor. I found no sub-forum specifically on the Viewer, so I am posting here because it's about a problem rendering text and may exist in the Editor as well. Specifically, if I open some e-books in Calibre E-Book Viewer, some characters in the text do not render properly. This often happens with characters that are Spanish or German, and have umlauts or tildes over them. For example, here is a screen grab of a page from an e-Book viewed in Calibre E-Book Viewer: http://i.imgur.com/QvooCEy.png Note that names with non-English characters are mangled. In this example, the letter ñ (n with a tilde over it, like in the Spanish word niño or señorita) is mangled. This does not happen in other E-Book Viewers. Here is the same page from the same E-Book in the Adobe Digital Editions Viewer: http://i.imgur.com/n2ed0Ww.png Adobe Digital Editions Viewer renders the characters correctly while Calibre E-Book Viewer does not. I thought it might be a problem with the font, that perhaps the font used doesn't have the glyphs for these Spanish or German characters. But I tried changing the font to Times New Roman, which I know contains these glyphs. The problem still remains. Does anyone know why this is happening? How do I correct this issue? Thanks. Attached Thumbnails

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05-25-2015, 01:25 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,891 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	The Source was from Word? The problem is with the Character Encoding specified and the devices support for the same. (you can force Calibre to use a specified codepage during a conversion. CP1252 is the one I use the most) UTF8 is most flexible (and modern) choice to use for modern document creation

05-25-2015, 01:55 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,170 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Put the correct charset declaration in the html file and you will be fine.

05-25-2015, 03:43 PM	#4
mscar09 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2015 Device: iPad	Thanks. I added a charset declaration for utf-8 and now it works fine. Appreciate the help!

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