UTF-8 encoding not accepted?

paulpeer · 12-06-2009, 10:12 AM

I've made some books with Sigil in which there are foreign characters. The result is perfect in 5 different readers (iPhone: Stanza; Mac: Stanza; Windows: Mobipocket Reader; Firefox EPUBReader; Sigil) but in the Sony PRS-505 all the accented characters are shown as question marks.

In the Sony forum they suggest that the problem is in the source code. But the source code created by Sigil states <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>. This should be enough for the Sony reader in order to show the text faultlessly. Or am I overlooking something?

Thanks!

Valloric · 12-06-2009, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulpeer

I've made some books with Sigil in which there are foreign characters. The result is perfect in 5 different readers (iPhone: Stanza; Mac: Stanza; Windows: Mobipocket Reader; Firefox EPUBReader; Sigil) but in the Sony PRS-505 all the accented characters are shown as question marks.

In the Sony forum they suggest that the problem is in the source code. But the source code created by Sigil states <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>. This should be enough for the Sony reader in order to show the text faultlessly. Or am I overlooking something?

Thanks!

See this question in the FAQ. It's ADE's fault.

paulpeer · 12-06-2009, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valloric

See this question in the FAQ. It's ADE's fault.

Thanks Valloric, this answers my problem!

ogurcan · 12-07-2013, 04:36 PM

I am having the same problem but I was unable to open the link related to the solution! Can anyone help me?

theducks · 12-07-2013, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ogurcan

I am having the same problem but I was unable to open the link related to the solution! Can anyone help me?

That post was in 2009

Sigil moved (to where you got it). That FAQ is probably there (at the new home)

Doitsu · 12-09-2013, 10:42 AM

The short answer is that the default fonts of your Sony Reader apparently don't support these accented characters; you'll need to embed a font that does, for example, Charis SIL.

12-06-2009, 10:12 AM	#1
paulpeer Zealot Posts: 147 Karma: 56 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Antwerpen Device: iPhone, Sony PRS-505, EPUBreader	UTF-8 encoding not accepted? I've made some books with Sigil in which there are foreign characters. The result is perfect in 5 different readers (iPhone: Stanza; Mac: Stanza; Windows: Mobipocket Reader; Firefox EPUBReader; Sigil) but in the Sony PRS-505 all the accented characters are shown as question marks. In the Sony forum they suggest that the problem is in the source code. But the source code created by Sigil states <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>. This should be enough for the Sony reader in order to show the text faultlessly. Or am I overlooking something? Thanks!

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