accented chars are weirdly managed - Page 2

pgfiore · 12-09-2013, 03:46 PM

In other words, who will fix it?

DaleDe · 12-09-2013, 04:11 PM

There is no one actively working on Sigil code so what you have may be the last version although someone might do something someday.

Dale

pgfiore · 11-27-2014, 11:15 AM

I had a dream... but Sigil 0.8.1 (built Windows x64, loaded Qt 5.3.2) does not fix the issue. Ciao

KevinH · 11-27-2014, 01:22 PM

Hi,

I did not even know about this bug so there was most likely no one working on it. That said code in xhtml files must be "normalized" NFC unicode according to the spec.

See this Wikipedia article for a description of what NFC text means for unicode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence

So if you have input correct "NFC" - Normalized Form Canonical Composition that still shows a bug in code view please post a the smallest example epub that shows the issue and I will see what I can do about it.

If the problem is in Qt, not Sigil, then a bug report should be filed with Qt.

Thanks,

KevinH

Quote:

Originally Posted by pgfiore

I had a dream... but Sigil 0.8.1 (built Windows x64, loaded Qt 5.3.2) does not fix the issue. Ciao

Arios · 11-27-2014, 04:01 PM

@pgfiore

And what happen if you get rid of all Calibre classes and span?

With something like this (in an epub file):

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="it">
<head>
  <title></title>
</head>

<body>
  <h3>Ciao!</h3>

  <p>è acquistabile <em>accessibilità</em> alle".</p>
  
  <p> etc., etc... La forêt ambiguë est bête, là où l'ombre s'estompte</p>
</body>
</html>

I work regularly with French files where there are many accents and I don't have problems with Sigil.

Doitsu · 11-27-2014, 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

So if you have input correct "NFC" - Normalized Form Canonical Composition that still shows a bug in code view please post a the smallest example epub that shows the issue and I will see what I can do about it.

When the OP reported this issue for the first time, I created a sample file that reproduces this issue. For more information see my original post. (To see this issue, you'll have to switch to Code View mode.)

IMHO, this is a non-issue, since there's no advantage in coding accented characters as two sequential characters. On the contrary, it will slightly increase the file size of ePubs in languages that use lots of accented characters. Also in my experience some diacritics are not correctly displayed above or below the base character, depending on the font and the rendering engine. For these reasons precomposed diacritics are almost always the better choice.

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12-09-2013, 03:46 PM	#16
pgfiore Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	In other words, who will fix it?

12-09-2013, 04:11 PM	#17
DaleDe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,470 Karma: 13095790 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Grass Valley, CA Device: EB 1150, EZ Reader, Literati, iPad 2 & Air 2, iPhone 7	There is no one actively working on Sigil code so what you have may be the last version although someone might do something someday. Dale

11-27-2014, 11:15 AM	#18
pgfiore Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	I had a dream... but Sigil 0.8.1 (built Windows x64, loaded Qt 5.3.2) does not fix the issue. Ciao