Automatic transformation in epub (damn => dang)

Khardan64 commented 1 year ago

Create a file with the following content:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>Mon titre</title></head>
<body><h2>condamné damné condamnation calomnie - damn demn dimn domn dumn - amn emn imn omn umn - mn</h2>
</body></html>

Upload the HTML file to ebookmaker.pglaf.org.
Open the epub file generated
Note that the text in the epub now contains: condangé dangé condangation calomnie - dang demn dimn domn dumn - amn emn imn omn umn - mn

Note:

It seems to be done with this group of letters: damn
I detected it when I started reading the epub of this book: L'affaire Lerouge from Émile Gaboriau (#15579 - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15579) with its epub generated with this tag(<meta name="generator" content="Ebookmaker 0.12.30 by Project Gutenberg"/>)
I found the same problem in two other books containing this false word condangé or a declinaison of it instead of condamné: for example inside Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I by Alexandre Dumas (#17989 - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17989)
It may impact all the (french) epub in the gutenberg library; although the cover image is not impacted (see this book: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné by Victor Hugo - #6838 - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6838. The cover is good but the text on the first page is The Project Gutenberg eBook of Le Dernier Jour d'un Condangé and the text is full of "condangé" words)

Khardan64 commented 1 year ago

In the same way, the word damnation is changed into condemnation.

Create a file with the following content:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>My title</title></head>
<body><h2>The Damnation of Theron Ware</h2>
</body></html>

Upload the HTML file to ebookmaker.pglaf.org.
Open the epub file generated
Note that the text in the epub now is: The Condemnation of Theron Ware

Note:

The damnation of Theron Ware is a book already in the gutenberg library here (# 133 - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/133). The epub generated contains:

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Condemnation of Theron Ware Title: The Condemnation of Theron Ware START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONDEMNATION OF THERON WARE ... END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONDEMNATION OF THERON WARE

windymilla commented 1 year ago

I just tried exactly that, and didn't get any transformation of damn into dang See this cache: https://ebookmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20230430114741/

What epub reader are you using? Maybe that is what is causing the issue?

windymilla commented 1 year ago

Similarly, book #133 has "The damnation of Theron Ware" not "condemnation" I checked ADE ebook reader and Calibre ebook viewer

srjfoo commented 1 year ago

Agreeing with @windymilla -- I didn't do multiple books, but I did try #133, and viewed in Apple's Books app on both computer and iPad, and saw no substitution.

Khardan64 commented 1 year ago

I found the problem and it comes from my own. There was an extension installed in my calibre (Language cleaner) and it affects the reader: changing all offensive language words to others. (The problem now, but only for me is that this extension modifed directly all the epub opened with the ebook reader and changed the words inside of them).

I'm really sorry for the time you may have spent on this :-<

windymilla commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the update @Khardan64 - glad you solved the mystery.

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Automatic transformation in epub (damn => dang) #185