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I've run into it more than a handful of times....and although I realize it is in no way Calibre's fault, it is extremely annoying. I just wish everyone would get on the same page with encoding!
I've run into a related problem with Popelli Reader and pReader - both ebook reading programs for WebOS. Between the two programs, they say they accept just about every format you can think of. In practice, though, they send everything to their servers to be converted to HTML and then back to your WebOS device. This means that if it's encoded differently than the converter thinks it should be, you either get no apostrophes and quotation marks, or you get a string of symbols where apostrophes and quotation marks should be. And do you know how difficult it is to read a book where every direct quote with a contraction looks like this?:
’Police are all too willing to believe it’s Lindsey’s handwriting’
It's enough to make you want to pull out your hair, for sure. I'm just grateful there's a relatively easy solution for Calibre....wish it was that simple for the other two programs; as yet I haven't figured out a solution other than to pre-convert everything to html and check it, and then load it on my phone.
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