12-29-2011, 04:40 PM | #1 |
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Odd letters/characters
I recently opened a book that appears to be normal in all respects except that many paragraphs begin and/or end with "â". Does anyone know why that might be? I suppose I could just do a search and replace to delete that character (hopefully it isn't used in any real words), but I was wondering if this was some kind of formatting error or if Calibre has a built in way to remedy issues like this.
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12-29-2011, 05:06 PM | #4 |
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Unfortunately, I don't have the source file; just the ebook that was provided to me. So far the â is the only odd character that I've noticed, but that was after a fairly quick skim of the book. Is there a way in Calibre to reconvert the book (it's already an ePub) from ePub to ePub but change the codepage along the way? Would that help? How do I find out what the codepage in the file is set to?
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I just had the same problem. The epub was fine in ADE, but when I added it to calibre all the quotes changed to the a with a caret on top. I found the thread linked below and tried converting epub to epub with this:
On Conversion Screen: Look and Feel: Character encoding: try cp1252 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=139753 It worked!! Now it looks the same in calibre and ADE. |
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Following the recommendations here (and in that old thread), I loaded the ePub into Calibre, did a convert (from ePub to ePub) but in the Input character encoding field I selected cp1252 and ... it worked! The book now appears to be formatted correctly. Some of the â characters became quotation marks, others became em dashes.
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