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cybmole · 01-05-2011, 01:38 PM

same book - new issue - I am losing the em-dahs-en-dash or whatever from this line
"using the – metacharacter"
that is a copy + paste from the CHM. no matter how I do the conversion to epub or to mobi, i end up with this:
"using the metacharacter"

I've tried ticking transliterate, tried cp1252 encoding ....

using view source on the chm i see this

Code:

Character sets may be enumerated explicitly or specified as ranges using the <TT>–</TT> metacharacter

it does not look any different to lots of other dashes which DO convert OK ???

in the output epub .xhtml it is simply missing. all that TT stuff is just not there and I see plain text -

but if I convert to mobi with same settings and send to Kindle then I see a question mark inside a box character, where the dash should be !

01-05-2011, 01:38 PM	#6
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	same book - new issue - I am losing the em-dahs-en-dash or whatever from this line "using the – metacharacter" that is a copy + paste from the CHM. no matter how I do the conversion to epub or to mobi, i end up with this: "using the metacharacter" I've tried ticking transliterate, tried cp1252 encoding .... using view source on the chm i see this Code: Character sets may be enumerated explicitly or specified as ranges using the <TT>–</TT> metacharacter it does not look any different to lots of other dashes which DO convert OK ??? in the output epub .xhtml it is simply missing. all that TT stuff is just not there and I see plain text - but if I convert to mobi with same settings and send to Kindle then I see a question mark inside a box character, where the dash should be ! Last edited by cybmole; 01-05-2011 at 01:54 PM.