Accented characters on PRS-505

[gandalfbp]

Hi,

congrat for Calibre, Kovid, wonderfull work! I try to convert some of ma Hungarian RTF's to ePub or to LRF to read on my Sony, but all the accented chars are either replaced by a question mark (ePub) or vanishing completly (LRF). The strange thing is that on the PC it looks OK, if I view it via Calibre. It shows wrongly only on the Reader.
On the other hand, if I transfer the original RTF, it is readeable. How can I define how to transalate these "strange" Hungarian chars?
I am thniking on buying ab other reader. How fonts are implemented on Kindle? Is there a reader what doesn't have this fault?

Thanks:

Peter

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by gandalfbp

Hi,

congrat for Calibre, Kovid, wonderfull work! I try to convert some of ma Hungarian RTF's to ePub or to LRF to read on my Sony, but all the accented chars are either replaced by a question mark (ePub) or vanishing completly (LRF). The strange thing is that on the PC it looks OK, if I view it via Calibre. It shows wrongly only on the Reader.
On the other hand, if I transfer the original RTF, it is readeable. How can I define how to transalate these "strange" Hungarian chars?
I am thniking on buying ab other reader. How fonts are implemented on Kindle? Is there a reader what doesn't have this fault?

Thanks:

Peter

I'm probably not the only person here who does not know what 'strange Hungarian characters' look like. Can you post an rtf and the epub so that we can have a look?

[hidari]

ON The 505, unless you use hacks, many languages do not work perfectly well in LRF, or Epub... You Can read in any language in PDF format. I have read several book in Russian on my 505 in PDF format..... also...Read news articles in Japanese...in PDF format...

[gandalfbp]

Hi,

I included the 3 files (rtf, lrf, and ePub) into the zip. I looked with the Sony Reader Library, the lrf shows spaces, the ePub shows questions marks instead of accented chars.

[kiklop74]

Sony can display Hungarian characters but you need to do some additional work.

Here is the step by step conversion guide.

1. Start your calibre and add your rtf file as new book
2. Select the book in the list of the existing books and click on convert books
3. Click on the Look & Feel icon and set it up as shown in the screenshot



4. Click OK

That should produce working epub sample