Weird characters in comment metadata

ehead · 01-10-2022, 10:26 AM

I've been fetching metadata using the amazon, goodreads, and a couple of other providers, and everything works great except sometimes the comments have weird characters:

"AbdÃ¼lmecid, has heard a rumor that Belliniâ€™s vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, butâ€”aware that the sultanâ€™s advisers..."

I'm certainly not an expert on this kind of stuff, but looks like it's an issue with encodings. Is this something I can fix by just picking a different font? Or is this a glitch in one of the metadata provider scripts?

kovidgoyal · 01-10-2022, 11:05 AM

its a problem in some metadata source. Look at the log when downloading metadata that will tell you which source.

ownedbycats · 01-10-2022, 10:20 PM

â€™ happens when UTF-8 is read as Windows-1252, fwiw.

01-10-2022, 10:26 AM	#1
ehead Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Kobo Aura HD	Weird characters in comment metadata I've been fetching metadata using the amazon, goodreads, and a couple of other providers, and everything works great except sometimes the comments have weird characters: "AbdÃ¼lmecid, has heard a rumor that Belliniâ€™s vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, butâ€”aware that the sultanâ€™s advisers..." I'm certainly not an expert on this kind of stuff, but looks like it's an issue with encodings. Is this something I can fix by just picking a different font? Or is this a glitch in one of the metadata provider scripts?

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01-10-2022, 11:05 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,311 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	its a problem in some metadata source. Look at the log when downloading metadata that will tell you which source.

01-10-2022, 10:20 PM	#3
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,917 Karma: 74203799 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	â€™ happens when UTF-8 is read as Windows-1252, fwiw.

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