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Old 08-18-2010, 11:40 AM   #1
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Black diamonds with question marks�
I've noticed on occasion text in files imported into Calibre will have some strange black diamonds with question marks in them.

The latest was with an epub book downloaded from Munsey's. I've also seen it in output from a text file. It looks like:

f�te

In this case, the word is supposed to be fête.

I gather Calibre sticks in the mark when it can't translate a certain character. Is there a setting in Calibre I can tweak? Or a way to convert an epub file beforehand so foreign characters will be read correctly when imported into Calibre?
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Old 08-18-2010, 12:40 PM   #2
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I do not think Calibre is doing anything? I think this tends to happen when a font is being used that does not contain the character in question. Many ebook readers have a very limited font set and as far as I know Calibre makes no attempt to limit the output ebook to the font set a particular reader supports.
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Seems like calibre tries to guess what the code page is, if it not stated. It may be the input files don't say what they are, so it might be worthwhile to set it in preferences each time before conversion. utf-8, cp-1252 and ISO 8859-1 are possibilities for English.

There is also more than one way to express these characters, one by number, such as #8212 and then in HTML, so this might be something to explore too.
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Old 08-18-2010, 07:13 PM   #4
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Have you tried transliterate unicode characters under look and feel
It has to be used with the original source file I believe
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