German Umlaute missing when converting txt->epub

franc · 04-07-2012, 11:05 AM

Hello

with the actual version of Calibre (calibre-0.8.46) I tried to convert a german text-file to epub on my Windows XP computer.
The result was, that all "Umlauts" (e.g. ä,ö,ü and ß too) were wrongly.

The solution was, to convert the textfile to UTF8 (I did it with EditPadPro), and then the calibre-conversion to epub was ok. It was encoded with Windows 1252 before.

I wonder why this is not done by calibre automatically?

Is that not possible to detect it?

krf

frostschutz · 04-07-2012, 11:44 AM

It's not really possible to detect charset of text files in general. You can only guess. Even HTML files need a meta tag to specify type of content and charset, to make sure it works all right.

DoctorOhh · 04-08-2012, 01:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by franc

The solution was, to convert the textfile to UTF8 (I did it with EditPadPro), and then the calibre-conversion to epub was ok. It was encoded with Windows 1252 before.

When you click on the Convert books icon - go to the Look & Feel section. There is an area to specify the Input character encoding.

Good luck with future conversions.

franc · 04-08-2012, 02:52 AM

Ah, good to know, by the way, Look and Feel is in German: Layout

http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/ima...43136-orig.jpg

04-07-2012, 11:05 AM	#1
franc Connoisseur Posts: 68 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: none	German Umlaute missing when converting txt->epub Hello with the actual version of Calibre (calibre-0.8.46) I tried to convert a german text-file to epub on my Windows XP computer. The result was, that all "Umlauts" (e.g. ä,ö,ü and ß too) were wrongly. The solution was, to convert the textfile to UTF8 (I did it with EditPadPro), and then the calibre-conversion to epub was ok. It was encoded with Windows 1252 before. I wonder why this is not done by calibre automatically? Is that not possible to detect it? krf

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04-07-2012, 11:44 AM	#2
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,279 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	It's not really possible to detect charset of text files in general. You can only guess. Even HTML files need a meta tag to specify type of content and charset, to make sure it works all right.

04-08-2012, 02:52 AM	#4
franc Connoisseur Posts: 68 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: none	Ah, good to know, by the way, Look and Feel is in German: Layout http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/ima...43136-orig.jpg

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