MOBI metadata: Correctly handle long titles in non ASCII encodings when reading metadata

2025-07-09 03:04:10 -04:00 · 2010-02-15 14:01:15 -07:00 · 2010-02-15 14:01:15 -07:00 · c7aabab2db
commit c7aabab2db
parent 198ef55095
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ class EXTHHeader(object):
                pass
            elif id == 503: # Long title
                if not title or title == _('Unknown'):
-                    title = content
+                    try:
+                        title = content.decode(codec)
+                    except:
+                        pass
            #else:
            #    print 'unknown record', id, repr(content)
        if title: