Thread: HTML2ePub conversion (question mark instead single quote)
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Old 07-13-2010, 10:04 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by mikij View Post
I tried to convert an ebook from html to epub for my SONY PRS-600. However, instead of single quotes, I have question marks. Q.m. appear also sometimes even if there is no single quote in the original text (OK I think I'll fix it by replacing — by -).
This FAQ section explains how to get around this without mass editing. Pay particular attention to part 2.

I use trial and error when specifying the encoding, I start with calibre's default (which works fine for me most of the time). If I run into a problem I try the below character encodings one at a time.

cp1252
cp1251
latin1
utf-8
ascii

This has to be specified before adding the html book to calibre. The problem you're seeing is before conversion, it happens when the html book is added to calibre.
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