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05-18-2023, 12:59 AM | #1 |
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Plugboard for series numbering (decimals & no decimals): exploit the Kindle’s bug
This (partially) resolves a long-standing problem with using the series as a part of the name of the E-book (as shown by dumb readers). There are two problems when one tries to implement this:
¹⁾ To check sorting rules, write test strings to a file, and use the command Fortunately, before I understood the second problem, I made several experiments with an actual Kindle v5.10.1.3. It turns out that (contrary to TR10) it has a very felicitous bug: it does not ignore “funny characters” before²⁾ a decimal dot!Code:
env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 YOUR-FILE-NAME ²⁾ Unfortunately, the funny characters are ignored before a number. In particular, one does need leading 0s for the numerical-order-preserving sort. ————————————————— To make the long story short, use the following chunk in a plugboard (I direct the result to the author field):Code:
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decimals, plugboard, regexp, series_index, unicode |
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