em-dashes in mobi

AThirstyMind · 06-03-2011, 02:48 AM

My em-dashes are showing as an N with a squiggle on top in Mobi...not good. Why would this be? Also an accented e (as in fiance and cafe) is appearing as a Z with caret top, and curly (smart) quotes are being replaced with an accented O! I think it may have something to do with the original Mac doc...probably a nuclear purge is in order, yes?

Anyone else experiencing this problem?

ATDrake · 06-03-2011, 03:27 AM

That sounds like a file encoding issue. If you started with a Mac doc, it's probably in Mac-Roman, and you should see if you can get it to change to UTF-8 before you feed it into whatever converter you're using.

AThirstyMind · 06-04-2011, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATDrake

That sounds like a file encoding issue. If you started with a Mac doc, it's probably in Mac-Roman, and you should see if you can get it to change to UTF-8 before you feed it into whatever converter you're using.

Thanks, I didn't do a nuclear purge on this doc...I should have! I haven't had this issue with anything that I've scanned/OCR/converted to a Word doc...so I'm sure you're right.

dwig · 06-04-2011, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATDrake

...you should see if you can get it to change to UTF-8 before you feed it into whatever converter you're using.

Or, if your converter has the function, manually tell the converter what the source document's encoding is.

Calibre has a control for just this purpose. It lives on the "Look & Feel" tab in the Convert dialog.

AThirstyMind · 06-12-2011, 09:13 AM

Thanks!!! This is so helpful. I'll try the Look & Feel menu in Calibre!

06-03-2011, 02:48 AM	#1
AThirstyMind A Thirsty Mind Posts: 92 Karma: 2546 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Lubec, Maine Device: Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone	em-dashes in mobi My em-dashes are showing as an N with a squiggle on top in Mobi...not good. Why would this be? Also an accented e (as in fiance and cafe) is appearing as a Z with caret top, and curly (smart) quotes are being replaced with an accented O! I think it may have something to do with the original Mac doc...probably a nuclear purge is in order, yes? Anyone else experiencing this problem?

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06-03-2011, 03:27 AM	#2
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	That sounds like a file encoding issue. If you started with a Mac doc, it's probably in Mac-Roman, and you should see if you can get it to change to UTF-8 before you feed it into whatever converter you're using.

06-12-2011, 09:13 AM	#5
AThirstyMind A Thirsty Mind Posts: 92 Karma: 2546 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Lubec, Maine Device: Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone	Thanks!!! This is so helpful. I'll try the Look & Feel menu in Calibre!