something very strange...
i tried to convert
this book to imp, via html, using
Nick's conversion tool (version 9.1).
but i got some very strange text as a result...
’ instead of curly apostrophe,
“ for a double curly left quotation mark, and
� for a double curly right quotation mark...
in the html source, the codes are respectively :
’ & acirc ; & #128 ; & #153 ; (i added the spaces)
“ & acirc ; & #128 ; & #156 ;
� & acirc ; & #128 ; & #157 ;
in the mobi version, the characters display correctly (apostrophe, open quotation mark, close quotation mark).
anybody know why this would happen ? there must be something strange in the mobi code, but i've never seen this result before... and is there any easy way to fix it (besides search and replace, i mean, because for the moment i have identified 3 charactes, but maybe there are a lot more in the rest of the book...) ?
[EDIT yes there are more, a LOT more. it looks like every single special punctuation mark is incorrectly coded. i hope somebody knows an easy way to fix this... or this conversion is going to be a lot more work than i expected...]