French Language Books

mysweety · 07-29-2009, 01:26 PM

I have been trying to convert html and pdf books in French into prc or ePub.

The conversions for html are better but there is still a problem with the "oe" and "à" and "è".
The conversion from pdf is quite terrible - there seem to be line breaks after each accent and the accents are not on the letters but beside the letters.

I have tried using the alias for CH in the look and feel to no avail.

Could somebody please tell me what I need to put in the look and feel and how?

Thanks for the help.

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2009, 01:28 PM

For HTML conversions you may need to specify the correct input encoding, probably one of the following

cp1252
cp1251
latin1
utf-8

mysweety · 07-29-2009, 01:30 PM

Thanks for your help - how do I specify this - just putting it into the "Look and feel " ? What about the pdfs - is there anything I can do about these?

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2009, 01:38 PM

Yes. As for PDF, not really.

mysweety · 07-29-2009, 02:13 PM

I have tried all these options with no success - worse than when leaving it blank. I put them in the "Input character encoding" field in the "Look and Feel". Is this OK? Has anyone tried converting French language docs? Thanks for the help.

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2009, 02:14 PM

zip up the HTML before adding it to calibre (i.e. put it ina ZIP file and add the ZIP file to calibre). Then try those options.

mysweety · 07-29-2009, 02:23 PM

Thanks - this is exactly what I have done. Put the index file into calibre and it zipped up everything.

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2009, 02:25 PM

No I mean zip up all the files yourself first and then add the ersulting ZIP file to calibre

mysweety · 07-29-2009, 02:48 PM

Great - this worked for latin-1 except for "oe" but the "è and à" are OK.

Now just need a work-round for pdfs

Kisxela · 07-29-2009, 04:15 PM

I have been trying to convert rtf and html texts in Hungarian to epub. "ű" and "ő" are ok in the calibre ebook viewer but not in ADE and Cool-er.

Jellby · 07-29-2009, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mysweety

Great - this worked for latin-1 except for "oe" but the "è and à" are OK.

I think "œ" is not in latin-1, but it is in latin-9 (aka ISO-8859-15).

user_none · 07-30-2009, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mysweety

The conversion from pdf is quite terrible - there seem to be line breaks after each accent and the accents are not on the letters but beside the letters.

I can fix this. There was a similar problem with German characters that have umlauts (e.g. ü). Can you attach or send me a PDF with the French accented characters so I can test my changes?

mysweety · 07-31-2009, 08:30 AM

Hi user_none

Glad to enclose the document.

But perhaps it is better to send you the link:

http://alysse.org/~thomas/autonomy_project/

The link to the pdf is at the bottom of the page.

Bye

mysweety · 07-31-2009, 08:32 AM

The html converted well with latin-9 but calibre only recognised the full ISO in the look and feel.

The "oe" is still missing but perhaps this is due to a problem in the viewer or in the hanlin device.

user_none · 07-31-2009, 09:41 AM

I've made a commit that cleans up French characters (e.g. à,û,é...) for PDF input. It should be in the next release. Let me know if I missed anything. Also, at least with conversion from PDF the oe character is displaying correctly in calibre's ebook-viewer.

07-29-2009, 01:26 PM	#1
mysweety Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Hanlin V3, PB360	French Language Books I have been trying to convert html and pdf books in French into prc or ePub. The conversions for html are better but there is still a problem with the "oe" and "à" and "è". The conversion from pdf is quite terrible - there seem to be line breaks after each accent and the accents are not on the letters but beside the letters. I have tried using the alias for CH in the look and feel to no avail. Could somebody please tell me what I need to put in the look and feel and how? Thanks for the help.

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07-29-2009, 01:28 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	For HTML conversions you may need to specify the correct input encoding, probably one of the following cp1252 cp1251 latin1 utf-8

07-29-2009, 01:30 PM	#3
mysweety Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Hanlin V3, PB360	Thanks for your help - how do I specify this - just putting it into the "Look and feel " ? What about the pdfs - is there anything I can do about these?

07-29-2009, 01:38 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Yes. As for PDF, not really.

07-29-2009, 02:13 PM	#5
mysweety Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Hanlin V3, PB360	I have tried all these options with no success - worse than when leaving it blank. I put them in the "Input character encoding" field in the "Look and Feel". Is this OK? Has anyone tried converting French language docs? Thanks for the help.

07-29-2009, 02:14 PM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	zip up the HTML before adding it to calibre (i.e. put it ina ZIP file and add the ZIP file to calibre). Then try those options.

07-29-2009, 02:23 PM	#7
mysweety Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Hanlin V3, PB360	Thanks - this is exactly what I have done. Put the index file into calibre and it zipped up everything.

07-29-2009, 02:25 PM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No I mean zip up all the files yourself first and then add the ersulting ZIP file to calibre

07-29-2009, 02:48 PM	#9
mysweety Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Hanlin V3, PB360	Great - this worked for latin-1 except for "oe" but the "è and à" are OK. Now just need a work-round for pdfs

07-29-2009, 04:15 PM	#10
Kisxela Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Asus-A696, Cool-er, Hanlin V5	I have been trying to convert rtf and html texts in Hungarian to epub. "ű" and "ő" are ok in the calibre ebook viewer but not in ADE and Cool-er.

07-31-2009, 08:30 AM	#13
mysweety Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Hanlin V3, PB360	Hi user_none Glad to enclose the document. But perhaps it is better to send you the link: http://alysse.org/~thomas/autonomy_project/ The link to the pdf is at the bottom of the page. Bye

07-31-2009, 08:32 AM	#14
mysweety Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Hanlin V3, PB360	The html converted well with latin-9 but calibre only recognised the full ISO in the look and feel. The "oe" is still missing but perhaps this is due to a problem in the viewer or in the hanlin device.

07-31-2009, 09:41 AM	#15
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	I've made a commit that cleans up French characters (e.g. à,û,é...) for PDF input. It should be in the next release. Let me know if I missed anything. Also, at least with conversion from PDF the oe character is displaying correctly in calibre's ebook-viewer.