Thread: How can I remove these strange ? marks in my books?
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Old 06-26-2011, 08:10 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Beerman View Post
I'm using iBooks on an iPad 2 and have a number of books by different authors, all in epub format (no DRM). I use Calibre to copy the books to my iPad and have noticed that almost every page in every book has some ? symbols, mostly where apostrophe's go but in other places as well.
I've tried converting to other formats but it makes no difference. Some of the free domain books have this but not nearly as much as the paid for books. I have no problem on my wife's Kindle with these same books.
What's up with this?
Thanks for any suggestions you have to get rid of these bothersome symbols.
By declaring the correct code page for conversion
Tip; try CP1252

Those are symbols that do not appear in the default code page on your system (and the document did not properly declare encoding)
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