Smarten quotation marks conversion

pdurrant · 08-23-2012, 06:13 AM

I've come across a Mobipocket ebook converted using calibre 0.7.1 that used U+0093 (Set Transmit State, UTF8 encoding C293) and U+0094 (Cancel Character, UTF8 encoding C293) for left and right double quotation marks.

These are not the right characters to use - they should be U+201C (Left Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809C) and U+201D (Right Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809D).

Does/did calibre smarten quotes with the wrong characters? Or was this a source text problem?

I could delve deeply into this and find the answer myself, but I'm hoping that someone here has the answer at their fingertips (and that the answer is that it's a source text problem!).

Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 08-23-2012, 07:06 AM

I dont recall ever changing the characters generated by smarten punctuation, so if it is generating the correct chars now, it must have been doing so in the Jurassic period, when 0.7.1 was current as well.

pdurrant · 08-23-2012, 07:28 AM

Thanks, Kovid. I've just double-checked, and the current version uses the correct characters when smartening quotation marks.

So it was a source text problem after all.

08-23-2012, 06:13 AM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse Posts: 24,268 Karma: 73595938 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle 2; iPhone 3G; Bookeen Opus; NOOK ST GlowLight	Smarten quotation marks conversion I've come across a Mobipocket ebook converted using calibre 0.7.1 that used U+0093 (Set Transmit State, UTF8 encoding C293) and U+0094 (Cancel Character, UTF8 encoding C293) for left and right double quotation marks. These are not the right characters to use - they should be U+201C (Left Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809C) and U+201D (Right Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809D). Does/did calibre smarten quotes with the wrong characters? Or was this a source text problem? I could delve deeply into this and find the answer myself, but I'm hoping that someone here has the answer at their fingertips (and that the answer is that it's a source text problem!). Thanks. __________________ Kai Lung Raises His Voice, now available at Amazon and BooksOnBoard A new collection of ‘Kai Lung’ stories by Ernest Bramah, including four previously unpublished stories. Need professional help formatting your ebook? Send me email.....................Books I've read in 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

08-23-2012, 07:06 AM	#2
kovidgoyal Creator of calibre Posts: 22,485 Karma: 2944574 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I dont recall ever changing the characters generated by smarten punctuation, so if it is generating the correct chars now, it must have been doing so in the Jurassic period, when 0.7.1 was current as well. __________________ Get calibre Notice to all: I can not provide assistance with DRM removal, for legal reasons, so please do not contact me about it.

08-23-2012, 07:28 AM	#3
pdurrant The Grand Mouse Posts: 24,268 Karma: 73595938 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle 2; iPhone 3G; Bookeen Opus; NOOK ST GlowLight	Thanks, Kovid. I've just double-checked, and the current version uses the correct characters when smartening quotation marks. So it was a source text problem after all. __________________ Kai Lung Raises His Voice, now available at Amazon and BooksOnBoard A new collection of ‘Kai Lung’ stories by Ernest Bramah, including four previously unpublished stories. Need professional help formatting your ebook? Send me email.....................Books I've read in 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

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