Displaying HTML in spanish

ixcoatl · 02-06-2010, 04:43 AM

Hi,

After my recent problem with teh ePUB format (the Opus was in an endless cycle in the 3 dots sceen), I decided to use HTML instead.

However no I find that all the accentuated letters are not displaying correctly even when inside the file the encoding is set to UTF-8 with a <META> tag.

For example the word 'árbol' apears like 'Äirbol' .

I guess that changing all the accentuated words with its respective entities sould solve the problem, but I hope theres a simplier solution.

Any suggestions?

Cheers!

Jellby · 02-06-2010, 05:54 AM

It's probably not "Äirbol", but "Ã¡rbol". That's what "árbol" looks like when it's utf8-encoded, but interpreted as latin-1. You could try saving the file in latin-1 encoding (a.k.a. iso-8859-1), and putting the right <meta> tag, or removing it.

ixcoatl · 02-12-2010, 06:31 PM

SOLVED

I did what you say and now every single accent is in place.

For those who dont know how to change the encoding for HTML documents, the easy way using open office is:

1) Open the document using open writer
2) Go to Tools -> Option -> Load/Save -> HTML

And then select iso-8859-1 for the encoding.

Cheers!

02-06-2010, 04:43 AM	#1
ixcoatl Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Bookeen Opus	Displaying HTML in spanish Hi, After my recent problem with teh ePUB format (the Opus was in an endless cycle in the 3 dots sceen), I decided to use HTML instead. However no I find that all the accentuated letters are not displaying correctly even when inside the file the encoding is set to UTF-8 with a <META> tag. For example the word 'árbol' apears like 'Äirbol' . I guess that changing all the accentuated words with its respective entities sould solve the problem, but I hope theres a simplier solution. Any suggestions? Cheers!

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02-06-2010, 05:54 AM	#2
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,543 Karma: 19001583 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	It's probably not "Äirbol", but "Ã¡rbol". That's what "árbol" looks like when it's utf8-encoded, but interpreted as latin-1. You could try saving the file in latin-1 encoding (a.k.a. iso-8859-1), and putting the right <meta> tag, or removing it.

02-12-2010, 06:31 PM	#3
ixcoatl Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Bookeen Opus	SOLVED I did what you say and now every single accent is in place. For those who dont know how to change the encoding for HTML documents, the easy way using open office is: 1) Open the document using open writer 2) Go to Tools -> Option -> Load/Save -> HTML And then select iso-8859-1 for the encoding. Cheers!

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