txt/epub - Guillemets conversion problem - Page 2

Agama · 11-08-2011, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by julo

I need to maintain the txt file and I consider it worse having:which is what it will then also look in the ePub file. Now you really can't read it.

I do not see a way to edit ePub within Calibre, and if I understand you right I should make an html file first and from that the ePub. That is what I have been doing all along, not using Calibre though, but I thought Calibre could go direct from a txt file to ePub.

Am I wrong?

You missed off the semi-colons.

Your text should read: This is a test text using »guillemets«.
(Conversion test and result attached).

Converting this to ePub in calibre does result in the correct symbols.

You can also edit the ePub directly in calibre after conversion, (thus preserving your original text file), using the Tweak ePub option, from where you could do a global find/replace of your incorrect symbols.

julo · 11-15-2011, 10:23 AM

@ ldolse:
I do not have a preference for anything. The files are not of my doing and the vast majority is in latin-1 (iso-8859-1). I have to live with that, very few in utf-8. Those files are still work in progress, and I have been doing some conversion for my part of the work. I just wanted to minimize the conversion work.
(In case you are interested it is for 'Smooth Reading' for PGDP, see here: http://www.pgdp.net/c/tools/post_pro...th_reading.php)

@ Agama:
You are so right, I did indeed miss the semi-colons.
I did not know about the Tweak feature. I have to try that. I was looking for some kind of edit in the top icon row.

In regard to Calibre I stumbled across this table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859#Table). Note that the two characters I have problems with are (hex) code point AB and BB.[*] They show correct in 8859-1, but what I am getting is the characters from 8859-2. So I think that Calibre is defaulting to 8859-2. I can understand that now because of the programmers home country, but still didn't expect it for an English program.

The other thing I noticed, is that just changing to latin-1 and then running the conversion appears to be not sufficient. I had to quit Calibre before the change to latin-1 'takes'. Something else I did not know, but need to confirm.

[*] I tried a few other characters and they changed also in the same way.

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11-15-2011, 10:23 AM	#17
julo Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 12 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Pittsburgh area Device: prs-505,900,T2	@ ldolse: I do not have a preference for anything. The files are not of my doing and the vast majority is in latin-1 (iso-8859-1). I have to live with that, very few in utf-8. Those files are still work in progress, and I have been doing some conversion for my part of the work. I just wanted to minimize the conversion work. (In case you are interested it is for 'Smooth Reading' for PGDP, see here: http://www.pgdp.net/c/tools/post_pro...th_reading.php) @ Agama: You are so right, I did indeed miss the semi-colons. I did not know about the Tweak feature. I have to try that. I was looking for some kind of edit in the top icon row. In regard to Calibre I stumbled across this table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859#Table). Note that the two characters I have problems with are (hex) code point AB and BB.[] They show correct in 8859-1, but what I am getting is the characters from 8859-2. So I think that Calibre is defaulting to 8859-2. I can understand that now because of the programmers home country, but still didn't expect it for an English program. The other thing I noticed, is that just changing to latin-1 and then running the conversion appears to be not sufficient. I had to quit Calibre before the change to latin-1 'takes'. Something else I did not know, but need to confirm. [] I tried a few other characters and they changed also in the same way.

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