From c7aabab2db30f5232605f885e0c879887010b13c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:01:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MOBI metadata: Correctly handle long titles in non ASCII
 encodings when reading metadata

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
index 38c77b6d06..88396b4346 100644
--- 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: