Hebrew aleph and overlining problems - Page 2

frabjous · 08-25-2009, 12:24 PM

Which web browser, out of curiousity?

The Greek letters, etc., look fine on my Sony, and in ADE, and on Stanza on a friend's iPhone, but I have had trouble with them not appearing right in calibre's viewer. I assumed it was a fault with calibre's viewer. I asked Kovid about it here -- I wonder if this is the cause. I'll do some investigating. Thanks.

EDIT: No, this doesn't seem to be the cause of the trouble I was having with Greek letters. I tried removing the ISO-... tag, and still got the problem with Greek letters in calibre.

If I just open one of the html parts in a browser, the non-ASCII is broken too, at least until I change the encoding to UTF-8 on my Browser. But apart from the one mentioned above (which seems only to apply to Greek, not emdashes and smart quotes, etc.), I haven't had any trouble with actual ePub viewers. Still it's probably safer to get rid of the confusing extra tag in there.

Jellby · 08-25-2009, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frabjous

Which web browser, out of curiousity?

Opera for Linux 9.23

frabjous · 08-25-2009, 12:53 PM

All right, I've uploaded a new ePub that shouldn't have this problem.

It was sort of my fault. I had two encoding tags in my HTML source:

One reading:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" />

And another, redundantly:

<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"/>

Calibre was removing one of them but leaving the other in, while adding its UTF tag.

This redundancy was a side effect of my using a WYSIWYG HTML editor early in the process. I've since decided that WYSIWYG editors should never be trusted!

Unfortunately, it hasn't fixed my display problems with calibre's viewer. I think it'll fix things in Opera, though.

Thanks for your help.

Jellby · 08-26-2009, 05:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frabjous

This redundancy was a side effect of my using a WYSIWYG HTML editor early in the process. I've since decided that WYSIWYG editors should never be trusted!

Better late than never

Quote:

Unfortunately, it hasn't fixed my display problems with calibre's viewer. I think it'll fix things in Opera, though.

It looks fine now, using my ePUB-in-browser reader

amaryeh · 12-16-2010, 02:42 AM

I don't know if this is at all relevant over a year later, but I downloaded your book to a kindle 3 and it shows the Alef; looks bitmapped (pixelated rather than raster smooth) and stays the same size when changing font size.

frabjous · 12-16-2010, 10:26 AM

Yeah, I ended up using a small bitmap of an aleph in the .mobi version.

As you've noticed, this is far from ideal. I'd still love to hear if anyone knows of an alternative.

The ePub and PDF versions use real text alephs of course.

08-25-2009, 12:24 PM	#16
frabjous Wizard Posts: 1,213 Karma: 12890 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Device: Sony PRS-505	Which web browser, out of curiousity? The Greek letters, etc., look fine on my Sony, and in ADE, and on Stanza on a friend's iPhone, but I have had trouble with them not appearing right in calibre's viewer. I assumed it was a fault with calibre's viewer. I asked Kovid about it here -- I wonder if this is the cause. I'll do some investigating. Thanks. EDIT: No, this doesn't seem to be the cause of the trouble I was having with Greek letters. I tried removing the ISO-... tag, and still got the problem with Greek letters in calibre. If I just open one of the html parts in a browser, the non-ASCII is broken too, at least until I change the encoding to UTF-8 on my Browser. But apart from the one mentioned above (which seems only to apply to Greek, not emdashes and smart quotes, etc.), I haven't had any trouble with actual ePub viewers. Still it's probably safer to get rid of the confusing extra tag in there. Last edited by frabjous; 08-25-2009 at 12:37 PM.

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08-25-2009, 12:53 PM	#18
frabjous Wizard Posts: 1,213 Karma: 12890 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Device: Sony PRS-505	All right, I've uploaded a new ePub that shouldn't have this problem. It was sort of my fault. I had two encoding tags in my HTML source: One reading: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" /> And another, redundantly: <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"/> Calibre was removing one of them but leaving the other in, while adding its UTF tag. This redundancy was a side effect of my using a WYSIWYG HTML editor early in the process. I've since decided that WYSIWYG editors should never be trusted! Unfortunately, it hasn't fixed my display problems with calibre's viewer. I think it'll fix things in Opera, though. Thanks for your help.

12-16-2010, 02:42 AM	#20
amaryeh Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 116 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Jerusalem Device: kindle	I don't know if this is at all relevant over a year later, but I downloaded your book to a kindle 3 and it shows the Alef; looks bitmapped (pixelated rather than raster smooth) and stays the same size when changing font size.

12-16-2010, 10:26 AM	#21
frabjous Wizard Posts: 1,213 Karma: 12890 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Device: Sony PRS-505	Yeah, I ended up using a small bitmap of an aleph in the .mobi version. As you've noticed, this is far from ideal. I'd still love to hear if anyone knows of an alternative. The ePub and PDF versions use real text alephs of course.

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