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Old 06-01-2014, 03:34 PM   #1
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Language code ignored in Edit Metadata screen?
Hi, I've figured out that irrespective of the language code of an ebook, the following line is always inserted:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
in the titlepage.xhtml. This is causing hyphenation errors for Dutch books when the ePub ebook is transferred to the Kobo Aura HD reader as kepub. Is there a away (apart from manually editing all converted ebooks before they are transferred) to set the proper language code in the jackets.xhtml based upon the language code set in the Edit Metadata screen or insert a user defined xml:lang="xx" in the titlepage.xhtml?
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Old 06-01-2014, 04:30 PM   #2
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Hi, I've figured out that irrespective of the language code of an ebook, the following line is always inserted:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
in the titlepage.xhtml. This is causing hyphenation errors for Dutch books when the ePub ebook is transferred to the Kobo Aura HD reader as kepub. Is there a away (apart from manually editing all converted ebooks before they are transferred) to set the proper language code in the jackets.xhtml based upon the language code set in the Edit Metadata screen or insert a user defined xml:lang="xx" in the titlepage.xhtml?
What does the Language COLUMN in the Library Metadata say.
IIRC, that prevails
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Old 06-02-2014, 03:13 AM   #3
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Hi, the language column in the Edit MetaData screen is set to Dutch. The generated statements are:
in titlepage.xhtml: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
in jacket.xhtml: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

I've done some more testing with Dutch hyphenations but Kobo is really making a mess out of it for kepub ebooks. So, for now, I'm using unhyphenated regular ePub books unless somebody has a tip to make (and show) kepub books also unhyphenated.
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Hi, the language column in the Edit MetaData screen is set to Dutch. The generated statements are:
in titlepage.xhtml: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
in jacket.xhtml: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

I've done some more testing with Dutch hyphenations but Kobo is really making a mess out of it for kepub ebooks. So, for now, I'm using unhyphenated regular ePub books unless somebody has a tip to make (and show) kepub books also unhyphenated.
The Language on the edit metadata screen sets the value of the dc metadata element language <dc:language>nl</dc:language>, But this does not flow through to the xml:lang setting at the top of each xhtml file. I have no idea whether or not it should - I suspect not.

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Old 06-05-2014, 12:31 AM   #5
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Setting metadata only changed the <dc:language> element nothing else. Changing language declarations int he html would break multi-lingual books for example. To change declarations int he HTML use the ebook editor.
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Old 06-05-2014, 03:36 AM   #6
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Hi Kovid, thanks for the update. As already mentioned, I went back to normal ePub and that works fine and there is no need to edit any ebook afterwards....

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