Conversion of hebrew text from epub to mobi is backwards
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| calibre |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I have hebrew books in epub that I want to convert to send to my kindle. When I use the converter in Calibre, the viewer in Calibre looks correct, but when sent to the Kindle, it is backwards (described below). When I use the Amazon Kindle Previewer to convert, it is correct.
Hebrew is a right to left language. For example:
I read the book
Should appear as:
koob eht daer I
The Calibre converter got the words, right, but the sentences (or possibly text within a line) wrong. So it looked like:
I daer eht koob
So - summarize:
- epub and converted to mobi looked fine in Calibre reader
- converted to mobi looked backwards on Kindle
- Same epub converted by Amazon Kindle Previer into mobi, then imported to Calibre and then sent to Kindle looked fine.
Tested in both 0.9.0 and 0.9.4 for Windows 7 64bit.
| Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote Re: calibre bug 1073414 | #1 |
| Changed in calibre: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Convert to azw3, not mobi. That is what the Amazon tool is doing. It
creates a joint file that contains azw3 and mobi, and your Kindle will
pick up the azw3 part.
status invalid