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Originally Posted by dm15441
Hi,
I have a text file that I successfully converted to mobi in Calibre, but when I open it, I get a Calibre parallel exe error. So, I then tried to convert it into an epub file, but I got the below error. It does sound like Sigil may help me, but it seems a little beyond my technical skills. Is there an easier option? Also, I did try just copying and pasting only the beginning of the txt file into an RTF format, but even though that worked, I only see scrambled characters when I open it (to clarify, the text file is scrambled itself as a result of it being a Chinese file, but other Chinese files that I have that are the same way, but smaller in size, became readable when I converted them to mobi in Calibre):
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Next time create a new thread describing your problem instead of adding an unrelated issue to a months old thread...
With text files you sometimes need to define the line paragraph structure on the text input panel of the conversion options. By default Calibre tries to auto-detect where text file paragraphs begin/end, but in your case it failed. Choose one of the other options - single line paragraphs is the safest, but without seeing your doc it's difficult to recommend a specific format, just read the descriptions and see how they line up with your doc.
Simplest way to unscramble the text encoding is to open it in a text editor so it's viewable/readable on your desktop, and then re-save it using the UTF-8 encoding, which is what Calibre expects by default.