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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Why by PM? Others could benefit from hearing the solution.

Yes, I agree.

I've always thought deciding which system a document is using is like cracking a Caesar code. You can either simply try different conversions till it makes sense or analyse letter frequency.

It's easiest if most characters are correct and hardest if it's a multibyte system (especially if not a fixed number of bytes) interpreted as single byte per character.

Obviously also harder if it's not actually your native alphabet.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Why by PM? Others could benefit from hearing the solution.

Because back in message #26, a moderator removed the linked book so I was going to send a link in a PM to avoid annoying the greenies.

[DNSB]

Basically, I converted the body of the files using the website I linked to earlier and then did some cleanup (removing the mass of xml:lang= for example (why did a document in Cyrillic need a mass of en:GB and de: DE?)). I also renamed the chapter files since Sigil was not happy with the Cyrillic filenames, removed the mass of id=x<whatever> since there were duplicate IDs and whatever else it took make epubcheck happy.

I don't have the finished file on this computer so will have to attach it later.

Edit: link to modified epub sent in a PM.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Because back in message #26, a moderator removed the linked book so I was going to send a link in a PM to avoid annoying the greenies.

I understood your initial desire to communicate something to the OP via PM.

I just wasn't following why the OP wants to have the "how you did it" communicated via PM.

Originally Posted by KIE18

I wrote in the topic about unlocking private messages. When unlocked, I would like to know how you did it: "epub after conversion and a touch of cleanuop".

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I understood your initial desire to communicate something to the OP via PM.

I just wasn't following why the OP wants to have the "how you did it" communicated via PM.

I was thinking that seeing what I did would be useful rather than just trying to explain it with nothing to follow. I've been fiddling with epubs long enough that at times, I find myself going from A => B => C and then jumping to Y => Z. Sadly, I find myself reminding myself of a university professor decades ago who would fill half the board with equations and then state, "It is therefore obvious..." and write the final equation. It may have been obvious to him and, possibly, any divine beings who were auditing the course but not to anyone else.