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jackie_w · 04-23-2012, 08:58 PM

Without seeing the epub this is only a guess, but I quite often see something similar if the html file containing the 'wrong' chars (usually curly quotes for me) has an incorrect encoding statement at the top in the html header. Epubs are supposed to always be utf-8. I often find something like charset=iso-8859-1, which I manually edit to charset=utf-8. It then looks OK in the calibre viewer. If this is the problem there's a good chance it's wrong in every html file in the epub.

04-23-2012, 08:58 PM	#14
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	Without seeing the epub this is only a guess, but I quite often see something similar if the html file containing the 'wrong' chars (usually curly quotes for me) has an incorrect encoding statement at the top in the html header. Epubs are supposed to always be utf-8. I often find something like charset=iso-8859-1, which I manually edit to charset=utf-8. It then looks OK in the calibre viewer. If this is the problem there's a good chance it's wrong in every html file in the epub. Last edited by jackie_w; 04-23-2012 at 09:02 PM.