Chinese on e-ink screen

Originally Posted by borisb

Welcome to the forums, seagal

That's an excellent tip! If anyone is wondering how to do that, make a copy of th EPUB file and change the file extension to '.zip'. Then unzip the contents, find and change the file as requested, re-zip, and then change the extension back to EPUB.

Note that I don't think this will work on DRM-protected (paid-for) EPUBs because of encryption.

Thanks for ur reply. I do this job with my tablet pc which is running XP by sigil application. It's a convenient program to integrate all of epub edition progress. Anyone knows how to do all of theses steps in my pocket eDGe? Is there free zip program for android 1.6?

Hello seagal: Thanks for your suggestion!
I converted the ["xml:lang="en"] to [xml:lang="zh-TW"] and worked in the webpage "tw.yahoo.com"
Maybe entourage should try to modify this method to their next update.

BTW, I use "Astro" this file browser to unzip the zip files.
Unfortunately, even I can go through the zip file and open the content1.xhtml and also change the xml:lang, I still can not save it back to the zip....
If anyone has another solution can directly modify or even batch convert of webpage based epub, I'll glad to hear that

Originally Posted by sunnyone

Hello seagal: Thanks for your suggestion!
I converted the ["xml:lang="en"] to [xml:lang="zh-TW"] and worked in the webpage "tw.yahoo.com"
Maybe entourage should try to modify this method to their next update.

BTW, I use "Astro" this file browser to unzip the zip files.
Unfortunately, even I can go through the zip file and open the content1.xhtml and also change the xml:lang, I still can not save it back to the zip....
If anyone has another solution can directly modify or even batch convert of webpage based epub, I'll glad to hear that

ya. You are welcome. You also give me some hint to find out this solution. Zh-cn font is bold, and zh-tw is thin. Alough I like traditional Chinese, I choose font easy to read.

Astro can Compress into a ZIP. Is Compress not working?

Hello borisb:

I've test the compress method in Astro, but my pocket eDGe can not open it.
Even the Aldiko can not open the modified epub file.
Because the epub has the different mimetype compared to traditional zip file.
So simply compressed function is failed...

If anything I said is wrong, please correct me

Hmmm. Maybe someone else has a suggestion then...

Originally Posted by sunnyone

Hello borisb:

I've test the compress method in Astro, but my pocket eDGe can not open it.
Even the Aldiko can not open the modified epub file.
Because the epub has the different mimetype compared to traditional zip file.
So simply compressed function is failed...

If anything I said is wrong, please correct me

I try borisb' method and it works. BUT I use other program named "File editor" to replace "en" to "tw". Wish next update could fix this bug.

Originally Posted by jsfiller

Please add Greek. Please

Hello jsfiller:

I've tried to open webpage in Greek language
There are two different results...
1. http://mobile.enet.gr/
It works! And do not have any problems on display.

2. http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/:
Have nothing to display, even on the LCD screen.

Maybe it the problem on the URL?? Because the wikipedia use Greek in URL that eDGe can't recognize?

Or you can share your experience to us

Originally Posted by sunnyone

Hello jsfiller:

I've tried to open webpage in Greek language
There are two different results...
1. http://mobile.enet.gr/
It works! And do not have any problems on display.

2. http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/:
Have nothing to display, even on the LCD screen.

Maybe it the problem on the URL?? Because the wikipedia use Greek in URL that eDGe can't recognize?

Or you can share your experience to us

My problem is a problem with epubs. I haven't got my EE yet so my experience has been having TS test out books for me. So far epubs don't display properly and PDFs are inconsistent. My own PDFs look fine. I don't need web sites in Greek, so that won't matter. But I do need to be able to work on Greek texts.

Originally Posted by jsfiller

My problem is a problem with epubs. I haven't got my EE yet so my experience has been having TS test out books for me. So far epubs don't display properly and PDFs are inconsistent. My own PDFs look fine. I don't need web sites in Greek, so that won't matter. But I do need to be able to work on Greek texts.

Sorry, I think my expression may confuse you.
What I meant is I've tried both webSite and saved to epub format and open them on the E-ink screen.
The result is the epub converted from http://mobile.enet.gr/ worked well, but the epub converted from http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/: didn't work.
Or can you provide a part of your Greek epub? Maybe that can provide much more information about this problem.

Originally Posted by sunnyone

Sorry, I think my expression may confuse you.
What I meant is I've tried both webSite and saved to epub format and open them on the E-ink screen.
The result is the epub converted from http://mobile.enet.gr/ worked well, but the epub converted from http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/: didn't work.
Or can you provide a part of your Greek epub? Maybe that can provide much more information about this problem.

Unfortunately, no. I didn't keep the one that raised the concern and haven't purchased any others. I bought it from BnN when I thought I was going to switch to the Nook, and returned it. It cost too much money for a book I couldn't read properly. To BnN's credit, they refunded my purchase even though their policy is no refunds on ebooks. The interesting thing is that the same book from Amazon displays fine. This is why I say Amazon's format is better. Unfortunately, they're going to go the way of Beta, I fear: better product that doesn't make it because a lesser quality product saturates the market. Lest I sound bitter, I blame Amazon for this. They are too proprietary. Same thing happened with Macs. IBM allowed any and all to make PCs while Macs remained proprietary. You'd think the smart people at Amazon would learn that proprietary doesn't win the market.

As for the Greek issue, I am convinced, at this point, that the issue is with the publishers. They have to make sure their ebooks display the fonts properly. I was probably unfair when I screamed for Greek in the next update. I'm not sure anything Entourage does could/would resolve the problem. I am equally convinced my best solution is to buy the physical book create my own PDFs. But I might change my mind once I finally get my Edge. I might find PDFs a pain. I don't know what I'll do then. LOL If/when I get another epub with Greek, I'll let you know.

Thanks for your interest in helping. I appreciate it.

Originally Posted by hsieh

Has any one succeeded in reading Chinese or Japanese epub files on the e-ink screen?

Reading Chinese content on e-ink was one of my main reason to use eDGe,
but so far I can only use Android applications to read Chinese on the LCD.
The Chinese epub books I downloaded from gutenberg.org showed only the
title in Chinese on the e-ink screen. Their Chinese contents were displayed as "????".

This seems to be an Adobe reader problem, appearing also on my PC,
while Mobipocket reader is able to display the same Chinese epub book.
I hope enTourage will find a solution to this problem soon, and/or
allow 3rd party Android applications to display content on the e-ink screen.

Thanks.

Hello, I have succeded to read Chinese characters on the Entourage (Microsoft word) files(not on the e-ink screen), but not yet in HTML files. The problem with the "????" is most probably the used Charset. Only when I use charset=windows-1252"> I get full Chinese Characters. I'm still experimenting with Chinese files and will you keep informed. I think .PDF files will be readable on the Ink screen.
Zai Jian H.Langeveld

Welcome to the forums, henke

When you have figured out exactly how to get documents with Chinese characters to display properly, please post the sequence of steps you took to accomplish this.

Hello everybody:

I've made a solution to "partial" solve Chinese display problem on E-ink.
As my description before, I was bothered by save webpage to epub and has all "?????" on the E-ink screen.
Thanks for seagal's advice, I can simply change the xml:lang from "en" to "zh-TW" or "zh-CN"

Unfortunately, we must unzip + modify contents + repack in order to achieve this goal.
I wrote a simple application on eDGe, try to do all these things automatically.
Here are the steps:

1. Open the browser and save webpages you want.
2. Open the app "epubeDGe"
3. Key in the folder path of the epub you want to convert (the default path is "/sdcard/public/web-epaper_docs/")
4. Key in the language you want . It will convert from "en" to what you want. ex: zh-CN or zh-TW. zh-CN get thicker font and zh-TW get thinner.
5. Press Convert! button and wait for a while.
6. After converted, It will show "File convert finished."

Please noticed that every time we choose the function of save webpage to epub is accompanied with open it.
In order to load converted epub, you must open another epub and reload your converted epub.
Now~ we all have correct Chinese epub display on the E-ink screen.

I just test it on my own pocket eDGe and use Chinese encoding webpage for test.
Maybe it might works on other language, let's give it a try.
Please let me know if this small app has any way to improve or report for bugs.

Here is the link of app:
http://www.gmart-web.com/epubeDGe.zip

Thanks!

Excellent work!

I see that the epubeDGe.zip contains the APK a user would need to run to install the application.