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Originally Posted by kazbates
Okay. That was just weird. I inserted a copy of the line you gave me in all of the html files associated with the book, saved and exited and brought the book up on Reader Library again. The book still had the wonky characters and when I brought it back up in Sigil, the line had been deleted from all of the files. Pretty strange.
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That is very strange. There is a item called html tidy that is in Sigil. It is likely responsible for all the deletions. It is rather old and not capable of understanding some newer constructs. Given this problem you are having, here is what I would suggest. Most, if not all of your problems, is with curly quotes. Here is how to fix them.
Make a backup of your epub.
In windows - start -> programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map. Make sure a large map is available such as Arial. I have advanced view checked an Character set Unicode. (If you can't find this let me know and I will show you how to get the characters out of our wiki)
Scroll down and get the left double quote mark (or the one you want) and then select it. (U201C)
You will need this map to pick the substitue characters so leave it up.
Now in sigil use code view on the first file and then use the find command to search for the funny character sequence (select and paste both characters in the find)
Now in the replace tab cust and past the unicode character you found on the character map, that you want to replace it with.
Set the replace choice to mulitple files and then replace all.
Repeat these steps for each funny character sequence until you replace all of them with the correct curly quotes.
Save the epub and it should be ok.
Dale