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p3aul · 12-30-2010, 07:10 AM

I get these "?" characters in place of ' and " in my txt files when they are converted to epubs. I've tried saving these files as different character encoding including plain ascii, UTF-8 and Unicode and I simply can't get rid of them. It makes my epubs look horrible. When I loaded the txt file into word and chose to import using UTF-8 I didn't have the "?" but instead there were no ' and " at all. When I saved it as an rtf and converted that to epub, the ? were back.

Incidentally, I use The command line command ebook-convert exclusively to do my conversions.

Could someone help me with this?

Thanks,
Paul

12-30-2010, 07:10 AM	#1
p3aul Captain Courageous Posts: 239 Karma: 102 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: calibre, PRS 505	Those pesky <?> ! I get these "?" characters in place of ' and " in my txt files when they are converted to epubs. I've tried saving these files as different character encoding including plain ascii, UTF-8 and Unicode and I simply can't get rid of them. It makes my epubs look horrible. When I loaded the txt file into word and chose to import using UTF-8 I didn't have the "?" but instead there were no ' and " at all. When I saved it as an rtf and converted that to epub, the ? were back. Incidentally, I use The command line command ebook-convert exclusively to do my conversions. Could someone help me with this? Thanks, Paul