11-09-2012, 09:10 AM | #1 |
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Problem with Turkish (ğ and ı) characters
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First post here, welcome everyone! I've just bought a Pocketbook Basic New and I'd like to read some Turkish stuff on it. These files are in UTF-8 format and display perfectly on my PC. When I upload the txt files on my device, it display ş, ç right, but all of the ğ and ı display as g and i. I tried to set other encodings on the device such as ISO 8859-9 or win-1254 without success. So I can see ş and ç all right but not ğ and ı. And I want to learn Turkish with these books so it's really confusing and I need the exact characters. I don't really understand how come half of the Turkish characters are ok, half of them not and I'm not sure what the problem is. Any suggestion, advice? I'd appreciate it, thanks. |
11-09-2012, 07:46 PM | #2 |
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Hi.
Perhaps the font provided with Basic New doesn't have complete coverage of glyphs for turkish language. Search and donwload other truetype fonts, for example here: http://www.turkishlingua.com/turkish-fonts.html. Then it should be possible to choose somehow the downloaded font for use with epub files. |
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11-11-2012, 06:55 AM | #3 |
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Hi preempalver and thanks for the tip.
I've downloaded the Turkish fonts and copied into the fonts folder. Then I set the new font as default but my problem remained unfortunately. Any other idea? |
11-11-2012, 10:00 AM | #4 | |
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Let's suppose that the original source of the ebook was a book digitized with a scanner and converted in editable format via an Optical Character Recognition program. Then it's quite possible that ğ and ı were mistaken as g and i during the process, a typical issue of OCR conversion caused by multiple factors. An epub editor like Sigil could help in substituting wrong occurrences with right characters. EDIT: I'm deeply sorry, I need to sleep. You said you're using a txt file. May I ask if you can provide me a link to the file, I'd wish to try it on my PB603. Or attaching just a partial file here? Last edited by preempalver; 11-11-2012 at 12:09 PM. |
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