RTF to MOBI error

[rcuadro]

This is on a Mac running Leopard and 5.14 Calibre. I do have MS Office and Star Office installed but I cant get the RTF to convert...

Job: **Convert book: The Bourne identity**
**tuple**: ('InvalidRtfException', u"'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)Invalid RTF: File not ascii encoded.\n")
**Traceback**:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/parallel.py", line 960, in worker
result = work(client_socket, func, args, kwdargs)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/parallel.py", line 918, in work
res = func(*args, **kargs)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/mobi/from_any.py", line 51, in any2mobi
any2epub(opts, path, create_epub=False, oeb_cover=True, extract_to=oebdir)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_any.py", line 168, in any2epub
path = MAP[ext](path, tdir2, opts)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_any.py", line 86, in rtf2opf
generate_html(path, tdir)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/rtf/convert_from.py", line 144, in generate_html
xml = generate_xml(rtfpath, tdir)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/rtf/convert_from.py", line 134, in generate_xml
parser.parse_rtf()
File "calibre/ebooks/rtf2xml/ParseRtf.pyo", line 237, in parse_rtf
InvalidRtfException: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)Invalid RTF: File not ascii encoded.


**Log**:
Converting RTF to XML...
line: 229 char: 128
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 269 char: 254
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 332 char: 231
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 588 char: 92
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 594 char: 698
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 805 char: 439
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 872 char: 140
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 957 char: 90
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 1285 char: 202
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 1309 char: 312
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 1478 char: 287
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 1567 char: 102
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 1583 char: 115
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 1735 char: 96
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 1967 char: 413
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 2869 char: 101
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 3031 char: 344
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 3377 has bad encoding
line: 3381 char: 295
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 3470 char: 356
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 3508 char: 140
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 3600 has bad encoding
line: 3979 char: 354
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 4009 char: 528
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 4332 char: 497
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 4396 char: 220
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 4645 char: 385
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 4836 char: 633
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 5047 char: 119
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 5183 char: 134
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 5616 char: 46
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 5760 char: 248
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 5799 char: 291
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 5829 char: 575
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 5930 char: 195
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 6153 char: 604
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 6290 char: 4
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 6296 char: 586
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 6429 char: 571
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 6475 has bad encoding
line: 6572 char: 396
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 6621 char: 209
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
line: 6673 char: 117
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
File "/var/folders/Tg/Tg99CUaZGmy7PL6INHfZdE+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.5.14_p0Q0TA.rtf" does not appear to be RTF.
('InvalidRtfException', u"'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)Invalid RTF: File not ascii encoded.\n")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/parallel.py", line 960, in worker
result = work(client_socket, func, args, kwdargs)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/parallel.py", line 918, in work
res = func(*args, **kargs)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/mobi/from_any.py", line 51, in any2mobi
any2epub(opts, path, create_epub=False, oeb_cover=True, extract_to=oebdir)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_any.py", line 168, in any2epub
path = MAP[ext](path, tdir2, opts)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_any.py", line 86, in rtf2opf
generate_html(path, tdir)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/rtf/convert_from.py", line 144, in generate_html
xml = generate_xml(rtfpath, tdir)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/rtf/convert_from.py", line 134, in generate_xml
parser.parse_rtf()
File "calibre/ebooks/rtf2xml/ParseRtf.pyo", line 237, in parse_rtf
InvalidRtfException: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)Invalid RTF: File not ascii encoded.

[user_none]

Only ascii encoded RTF files are supported for conversion. You need to save the file with ascii encoding for it to work.