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I also have a series of files in txt format (Windows 1252: Western European) that lose all the quotations, colons, ticks, emdashes, etc (they become squares) on conversion to mobi. I've tried changing the encoding to a variety of different things, to no avail. Is this a job for "recipies" and some regex scripts? I'm using
--mobi-ignore-margins
--no-inline-toc
--smarten-punctuation
--output-profile=kindle
I also see options like --asciiize and the regex search and replace options - does anyone have suggestions about how to go about troubleshooting issues like this? What I mean is, when the conversion is done and it's a mobi, I can't "see" what the actual character is (it's a square). When I'm viewing it in a text editor before conversion, it's ok to me (whether it's a quote or an emdash, whatever) because I am using a smart editor (editpad, mostly) the displays the character.
I'm going to take a shot in a few with converting them all to html and doing some f/r, then converting to mobi - I'll update with the outcome.
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