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hernep · 11-01-2010, 01:09 PM

Without knowing all the details, I would say it is because of encoding of your PDF.
It is different than the produced HTML is. For example BIG-5 vs. UTF-8 or things like that. Check what is the encoding of PDF and set HTML the same encoding.

Can you copy that word with quotes and paste it on a word processor / plain text editor?
Does it look weird, too?

By the way. Those characters look so special that simple "replace string"-function in any text editor would do the trick hands down fast comparing the effort figuring out the the problem and possible solution.

Note, check also the font used. If possible use same font.

11-01-2010, 01:09 PM	#2
hernep Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 42 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Finland Device: iRiver Story, iPad 2	Without knowing all the details, I would say it is because of encoding of your PDF. It is different than the produced HTML is. For example BIG-5 vs. UTF-8 or things like that. Check what is the encoding of PDF and set HTML the same encoding. Can you copy that word with quotes and paste it on a word processor / plain text editor? Does it look weird, too? By the way. Those characters look so special that simple "replace string"-function in any text editor would do the trick hands down fast comparing the effort figuring out the the problem and possible solution. Note, check also the font used. If possible use same font.