Kobo Touch Extended: replace language?

franklekens · 04-19-2014, 09:01 AM

What does the option "replace content language code" do? By what does it replace the content language code?

I'm asking because I suddenly had a book in which the Kobo reader incorrectly identified the language as Dutch (the book was in English), so I had a hard time using the dictionary.

I'm wondering if a recent change in the plugin may have caused this for the most recent books I've loaded onto the device, and if checking this option might remedy it.

If not, are there other ways to make sure the reader correctly identifies the language? (Other than by diving into the css or the code of the epub itself, which I'm not familiar with and I'd rather not do on a book by book basis.)

jgoguen · 05-01-2014, 06:02 PM

It will do two things, but you have to set the language of your books first.

First, it will set the language code of the OPF file (a very important internal metadata file) to the book's language code. Specifically, it updates (or creates, if needed) nodes matched by the XPath expression //opf:metadata/dc:language

Second, it takes every internal content file and adds the 'lang' and 'xml:lang' attributes to the <html> tag.

This was primarily done to address issues with hyphenation when the book's language isn't properly defined. I'm not sure what effect it has on standard dictionaries. I'd say give it a try though, the worse that'll happen is your books still won't use the right dictionary for definitions.

04-19-2014, 09:01 AM	#1
franklekens Addict Posts: 398 Karma: 3421956 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: various Kobo's, Onyx Note2, Pocketbook 360, Kindle Keyboard	Kobo Touch Extended: replace language? What does the option "replace content language code" do? By what does it replace the content language code? I'm asking because I suddenly had a book in which the Kobo reader incorrectly identified the language as Dutch (the book was in English), so I had a hard time using the dictionary. I'm wondering if a recent change in the plugin may have caused this for the most recent books I've loaded onto the device, and if checking this option might remedy it. If not, are there other ways to make sure the reader correctly identifies the language? (Other than by diving into the css or the code of the epub itself, which I'm not familiar with and I'd rather not do on a book by book basis.)

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05-01-2014, 06:02 PM	#2
jgoguen Generally Awesome Person Posts: 1,100 Karma: 2191133 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: /dev/kmem Device: Kobo Clara HD, Kindle Oasis	It will do two things, but you have to set the language of your books first. First, it will set the language code of the OPF file (a very important internal metadata file) to the book's language code. Specifically, it updates (or creates, if needed) nodes matched by the XPath expression //opf:metadata/dc:language Second, it takes every internal content file and adds the 'lang' and 'xml:lang' attributes to the <html> tag. This was primarily done to address issues with hyphenation when the book's language isn't properly defined. I'm not sure what effect it has on standard dictionaries. I'd say give it a try though, the worse that'll happen is your books still won't use the right dictionary for definitions.

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