Quotes, apostrophes, what a pain.

[draconic]

I have a book I'm trying to convert from mobi to epub - but in both formats, original and converted, all the quotes and apostrophes and other such items are there and visible when the epub is exploded and viewed in HTML, but they're formatted like:

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|00|
|93|
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..for quotes, and 92 for apostrophes, etc. On the nook, they just show up as question marks.

Is there any way to tell Calibre what kind of encoding this uses and to replace number x with quotes, y with apostrophes, etc?

Thank you for the wonderful program and all the help. I apologize if this has been asked before, but searching for the specific character above in question just results in me searching for an open quote.

edit: i'd be happy to post the epub here, but i'm not sure how this forum feels about copyright issues, etc. let me know!

edit2: after exploding and viewing the epub in html, in notepad, the symbols aren't visible. in wordpad, they're all sorts of crazy. in dreamweaver, they're invisible. but in firefox, they're like those numbers above.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by draconic

I have a book I'm trying to convert from mobi to epub - but in both formats, original and converted, all the quotes and apostrophes and other such items are there and visible when the epub is exploded and viewed in HTML, but they're formatted like:

-----
|00|
|93|
-----

..for quotes, and 92 for apostrophes, etc. On the nook, they just show up as question marks.

Is there any way to tell Calibre what kind of encoding this uses and to replace number x with quotes, y with apostrophes, etc?

Thank you for the wonderful program and all the help. I apologize if this has been asked before, but searching for the specific character above in question just results in me searching for an open quote.

edit: i'd be happy to post the epub here, but i'm not sure how this forum feels about copyright issues, etc. let me know!

to MR

On Conversion Screen: Look and Feel: Character encoding: try cp1252

to set it as default:
Preferences: Common Options: Look and Feel: Character Encoding

[draconic]

Originally Posted by theducks

to MR

On Conversion Screen: Look and Feel: Character encoding: try cp1252

to set it as default:
Preferences: Common Options: Look and Feel: Character Encoding

tried it, cp1252 didn't work. tried utf-8 too just for the hell of it - same strange number characters are in the exploded HTML still.

edit: not sure why cp1252 didn't work - looking at the table for it 00,93 link up to open quotes, etc. so why isn't it converting correctly?

HOT DAMN - i got it working. on a whim, i converted from mobi to lit with cp1252 - then from lit to epub without cp1252, and it's formatted correctly! AWESOME. thank you so much!

[transmitthis]

Thats a couple of times, when reading this forum, that problems have been helped by converting to one format, and back to another, before the final convert to the one you want. Glad you got it sorted.

[MSWallack]

I just added a book to Calibre that had one of these formatting flaws, did a convert from ePub to ePub with the cp1252 and ... it worked! Formatting errors are gone.