Private Named Entities problems
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| calibre |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I came across a German classic EPUB, Grimms Märchen, using lots of private named entities for ligatures in its Fraktur font:
http://
from http://
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
[
<!ENTITY ll "">
]>
and then using them like ſo≪en in the XHTML texts.
As far as I can see this is coded correctly though not recommendable; my two Pocketbooks have different problems displaying it.
Calibre's current viewer (3.23 on Linux Mint Debian Ed.) displays those ligatures correctly, but also displays the closing ]> from <!DOCTYPE … . 3.13 did not display the ligatures.
Calibre's current editor (3.23) flags >70k errors and then ≈200 warnings about that, offering to replace the named entities with the referenced characters — but then does NOT replace the ≪ by its definition  but by ≪ , others not at all, removing only the warnings but not the errors.
Beautifying just removes the above definitions, thus ruining their display.
| Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote Fixed in master | #1 |
| Changed in calibre: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Hans Lederer (hanspl) wrote | #2 |
| Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote Re: calibre bug 1772157 | #3 |
Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.
status fixreleased