Thread: Converting PDF to MOBI, weird characters in story
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Old 05-20-2009, 05:25 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by cloudyvisions View Post
I use a Mac and tried to batch convert some PDF and LIT files to MOBI.

This is the result I got:



Any clue as to what is causing these weird characters in place of the correct punctuation? I have tested it with PDF and LIT formatted e-books and I get the same result for both.

I really wish I could get this figured out since this looks like the best program to convert my e-books for my Kindle!
I would guess that the file is not tagged with the correct code for UTF-8 characters. I get exactly this problem with html2mobi when I have an web page using UTF-8 since html2mobi does not handle UTF-8 correctly,
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