diff --git a/resources/compiled_coffeescript.zip b/resources/compiled_coffeescript.zip
index 10e6f498b3..18908ea0bb 100644
Binary files a/resources/compiled_coffeescript.zip and b/resources/compiled_coffeescript.zip differ
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/font_stats.coffee b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/font_stats.coffee
index b7306b7a11..e96d3184ed 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/font_stats.coffee
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/font_stats.coffee
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ font_dict = (style, computed=false) ->
         'font-style':style.getPropertyValue('font-style'),
         'font-stretch':style.getPropertyValue('font-stretch'),
         'text-transform':style.getPropertyValue('text-transform'),
+        'font-variant':style.getPropertyValue('font-variant'),
     }
 
 font_usage = (node) ->
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/stats.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/stats.py
index 023f1b2b44..afa60b3dbd 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/stats.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/stats.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class StatsCollector(object):
         for font in font_usage:
             text = set()
             for t in font['text']:
-                tt = font['text-transform']
+                tt = (font['text-transform'] or '').lower()
                 if tt != 'none':
                     if tt == 'uppercase':
                         t = icu_upper(t)
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ class StatsCollector(object):
                         m = self.capitalize_pat.search(t)
                         if m is not None:
                             t += icu_upper(m.group())
+                fv = (font['font-variant'] or '').lower()
+                if fv in {'smallcaps', 'small-caps', 'all-small-caps', 'petite-caps', 'all-petite-caps', 'unicase'}:
+                    t += icu_upper(t)  # for renderers that try to fake small-caps by using small normal caps
                 text |= frozenset(t)
             text.difference_update(exclude)
             if not text: