UTF-8 error?!

[lumanz]

Hi,
I used mobiunpack.py to get the html file. And then I put it back to Mobipocket Creator. It turns out the error: source file is not valid utf8.

I opened the html file I got and found many lines like this:

<idx:orth value="NUL ETX NUL EOT NUL...

which doesn't seems like a normal html. I think there's something wrong when you insert the meta back.

Could you pls have a look at this?

Regards.

[siebert]

If you see orth entries I assume your mobipocket file is a dictionary.
What dictionary is it (languages)?

I know that the dictionary handling code in mobiunpack.py has issues if
the source language uses utf-8. If someone comes up with a fix I'll be
happy to include it.

Ciao,
Steffen

[lumanz]

Yes, it's a English2Chinese dictionary.
Actually, all I want is to change the input language, so I can look up English words in books that Language meta is zh-cn or books with both Chinese and English.

So is it possible to change the meta directly without decoding?

Thank you very much!

[siebert]

You should be able to change the metadata of the dictionary with
mobi2mobi from the mobiperl tools (https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl)

Ciao,
Steffen

[lumanz]

Yes, I have given that a try and failed. [?]

96 0x60 4 Input Language Input language for a dictionary 100 0x64 4 Output
Language Output language for a dictionary
Here are the offset of the content. And the mobi2mobi tool can't change it.

I'm wondering if I can use something like winhex to change it. Or, it is
impossible to change it without decoding the mobi file.

Thanks again!

2011/12/17 siebert <
reply@reply.github.com

You should be able to change the metadata of the dictionary with
mobi2mobi from the mobiperl tools (
https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl)

Ciao,
Steffen

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