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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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