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Old 09-01-2014, 07:51 AM   #1
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Diacritics not shown after conversion
Hello to all. While converting a pdf file to mobi/azw3 the characters from my language (Croatian) like č, ć, ž, š, đ etc. get lost. I get all the letters without the diacritic mark, so I get c, c, z, s, d.. Can you help?
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I already have! There is no concrete answer to my problem. I know pdfs are tough to be converted. I hoped someone had a similar issue and that they managed to fix it somehow.
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It sounds like an encoding problem.
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I already have! There is no concrete answer to my problem. I know pdfs are tough to be converted. I hoped someone had a similar issue and that they managed to fix it somehow.
Just making sure you knew. (Next time, you can jump the gun by saying so in the OP. )

I know of no way to do it, sorry. The only cure is manual fixing.

I would start by opening it in the calibre ebook editor, and running spellcheck. Assuming calibre has a croatian dictionary, that is. You should be able to import a libreoffice dictionary if not.

You should be able to find many words that are invalid without the diacritic, and correct them in bulk. I don't know if any words would be considered correct either way, but if there are any, a regex should be able to match them once you know which words to look for.

Hopefully this will repair the majority of missing diacritics. If not, the thorough way will work -- unfortunately, that means going though the whole book line by line.

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It sounds like an encoding problem.
No. Encoding problems leave short strings of gibberish instead of specific characters. This is a PDF conversion, which is different.
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