[Snauzoo]

Actually Walt I posted my reply to dwig before I saw yours. So what I did was per his suggestion, not yours.

Now, looking at my html document, there is no encoding in the doctype - my understanding is that for dtd xhtml 1.1 that an encoding must be stated unless it is utf 8 or 16. So I have absolutely no idea what the encoding is. And trying over and over for a dozen of them seems to be a crazy wild goose chase.

On a whim, since it is html, I popped it open in Firefox, and the browser chose iso 8859-1 (its on autodectect since I work with a lot of utf8 and cjk stuff at work) and I played around with it in Firefox - the windows encoding also displays it correctly. So I am going to try that one next. I tried using iso 8859 -1 in the plug in and it did not work. I did manage to crash Calibre good. Then the light went on! Firefox calls cp 1252 "Western Windows 1252" So I thought, well maybe someone used Word to create this document, and tried that and voil'a it worked.

Thanks for the help I never would have figured that out on my own.