Calibre's UI font is messed up

sanon · 12-01-2021, 02:55 AM

I don't know how but I've managed to do this:
https://imgur.com/a/2b6eI7E

Any help to correct it will be appreciated. Thanks...

System:
Win 10 Home
Calibre 64bit 5.32.0

[image attached just in case]

pdurrant · 12-01-2021, 04:30 AM

That really is most impressive. Hopefully someone with an idea of how to fix it will be along soon.

BetterRed · 12-01-2021, 05:24 AM

Try adjust these:

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BR

theducks · 12-01-2021, 06:56 AM

BR said it

BUT why are the details still good????

sanon · 12-01-2021, 11:45 AM

I've managed to fix it. I think the font I've been using was broken. I've reinstalled it and the problem disappeared. Thanks...

ownedbycats · 12-01-2021, 10:45 PM

Reminds me of mojibake, though if I'm remembering correctly that tends to be incorrect character encoding rather than messed-up fonts.

sanon · 12-01-2021, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Reminds me of mojibake, though if I'm remembering correctly that tends to be incorrect character encoding rather than messed-up fonts.

@ownedbycats
Do you remember how that one was solved? I am asking because if I ever experience this again other solutions might come in handy too...

ownedbycats · 12-02-2021, 12:02 AM

IIRC, mojibake was mostly in browsers. Sometimes it happened if you manually set the wrong encoding (I don't know if any modern browser lets you do this anymore) or if the wrong one was sent in the HTTP header.

There was also an email client (Eudora?) that sometimes set the wrong encoding.

Nothing that I think could help for it happening in Calibre.

Quoth · 12-02-2021, 03:43 PM

Ha!
Eudora, like original Wordstar, didn't do International AT ALL, though Wordstar was worse being only 7 bit ASCII.

I switched from Eudora to something else in 2003 or 2004 and Thunderbird in 2005, I've still archived emails, imported from Eudora originally, since at least 2002.

theducks · 12-02-2021, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

Ha!
Eudora, like original Wordstar, didn't do International AT ALL, though Wordstar was worse being only 7 bit ASCII.

I switched from Eudora to something else in 2003 or 2004 and Thunderbird in 2005, I've still archived emails, imported from Eudora originally, since at least 2002.

Look at Pandora.I imported 20 years of Eudora, including Accounts, filters.
Not as slick looking, but it does UTF8

Quoth · 12-03-2021, 05:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Look at Pandora.I imported 20 years of Eudora, including Accounts, filters.
Not as slick looking, but it does UTF8

It's only Windows.
I was able to use the SAME Thunderbird files on Windows & Linux dual boot (with Windowss exe and Linux install) for years before moving 100% to Linux only in 2017.

I don't care for slick, esp so called "modern GUIs". Mozilla really messed up Thunderbird & Firefox. A recent Thunderbird update was especially ghastly but I was able to edit the CSS to differentiate mail folders.

theducks · 12-03-2021, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

It's only Windows.
I was able to use the SAME Thunderbird files on Windows & Linux dual boot (with Windowss exe and Linux install) for years before moving 100% to Linux only in 2017.

I don't care for slick, esp so called "modern GUIs". Mozilla really messed up Thunderbird & Firefox. A recent Thunderbird update was especially ghastly but I was able to edit the CSS to differentiate mail folders.

My slick comment was about Pandoras icons being cruder (IMHO) than the original (PAID 2.0-7.1) .
I tried Thundora when it first appeared and I could never get it to import everything (I had, and still have, multiple accounts, filters...)

12-01-2021, 02:55 AM	#1
sanon Member Posts: 16 Karma: 31960 Join Date: Apr 2016 Device: none	Calibre's UI font is messed up I don't know how but I've managed to do this: https://imgur.com/a/2b6eI7E Any help to correct it will be appreciated. Thanks... System: Win 10 Home Calibre 64bit 5.32.0 [image attached just in case] Attached Thumbnails Last edited by pdurrant; 12-01-2021 at 04:29 AM.

12-01-2021, 05:24 AM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,740 Karma: 30237526 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Try adjust these: BR

12-02-2021, 12:02 AM	#8
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,992 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	IIRC, mojibake was mostly in browsers. Sometimes it happened if you manually set the wrong encoding (I don't know if any modern browser lets you do this anymore) or if the wrong one was sent in the HTTP header. There was also an email client (Eudora?) that sometimes set the wrong encoding. Nothing that I think could help for it happening in Calibre. Last edited by ownedbycats; 12-02-2021 at 12:09 AM.

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sanon Member Posts: 16 Karma: 31960 Join Date: Apr 2016 Device: none	I've managed to fix it. I think the font I've been using was broken. I've reinstalled it and the problem disappeared. Thanks...

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ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,992 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Reminds me of mojibake, though if I'm remembering correctly that tends to be incorrect character encoding rather than messed-up fonts.

12-02-2021, 03:43 PM	#9
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,110 Karma: 105211945 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Ha! Eudora, like original Wordstar, didn't do International AT ALL, though Wordstar was worse being only 7 bit ASCII. I switched from Eudora to something else in 2003 or 2004 and Thunderbird in 2005, I've still archived emails, imported from Eudora originally, since at least 2002.