+    wxString title = _("noname"),
+             safetitle,
+             start = wxEmptyString,
+             contents = wxEmptyString,
+             index = wxEmptyString,
+             charset = wxEmptyString;
+
+    fi = fsys.OpenFile(book);
+    if (fi == NULL)
+    {
+        wxLogError(_("Cannot open HTML help book: %s"), book.c_str());
+        return false;
+    }
+    fsys.ChangePathTo(book);
+
+    const wxChar *lineptr;
+    wxChar linebuf[300];
+    wxString tmp;
+    wxHtmlFilterPlainText filter;
+    tmp = filter.ReadFile(*fi);
+    lineptr = tmp.c_str();
+
+    do
+    {
+        lineptr = ReadLine(lineptr, linebuf, 300);
+
+        for (wxChar *ch = linebuf; *ch != wxT('\0') && *ch != wxT('='); ch++)
+           *ch = (wxChar)wxTolower(*ch);
+
+        if (wxStrstr(linebuf, wxT("title=")) == linebuf)
+            title = linebuf + wxStrlen(wxT("title="));
+        if (wxStrstr(linebuf, wxT("default topic=")) == linebuf)
+            start = linebuf + wxStrlen(wxT("default topic="));
+        if (wxStrstr(linebuf, wxT("index file=")) == linebuf)
+            index = linebuf + wxStrlen(wxT("index file="));
+        if (wxStrstr(linebuf, wxT("contents file=")) == linebuf)
+            contents = linebuf + wxStrlen(wxT("contents file="));
+        if (wxStrstr(linebuf, wxT("charset=")) == linebuf)
+            charset = linebuf + wxStrlen(wxT("charset="));
+    } while (lineptr != NULL);
+
+    wxFontEncoding enc = wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM;
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+    if (charset != wxEmptyString)
+        enc = wxFontMapper::Get()->CharsetToEncoding(charset);
+#endif