I just encountered, for the first time, an issue with quotation marks appearing inverted -- that is close quotes -- at the BEGINNING of a number of sentences in an ePub when I ran it through Calibre's "smarten punctuation" option. Whether converting to Mobi or just trying to smarten the punctuation marks in the original ePub in question, both formats keep giving the same "backward quote" results.
The book (public domain, reformatted and tweaked by a member here) to which I'm referring was obtained in the ePub books Humor section of the MobileRead Forum, and can be found at this link:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...+lucia+omnibus
I examined the ePub using Sigl's code view, but saw nothing obviously wrong. Any help with this perplexing issue would be greatly appreciated.