Below is an excerpt from an article I converted from a .pdf file to a .txt file--using the Windows text editor Notepad. I then opened it in Sigil in order to apply the XHTML coding. At points in the document, Sigil displays the so-called "replacement character" (in Unicode, U+FFFD), which is a white question mark inside a black diamond, because it does not recognize the soft hyphen or the apostrophe. As I now look at this pasted-in excerpt in my browser (Internet Explorer) while writing this reply, I notice that the replacement character isn't a question mark in a black diamond, but shows up as a blank box. So I guess the question is one of encoding the text file prior to saving it. What should it be before opening it in Sigil. Will this solve the problem?
Or does it relate to whatever program is opening the file?
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-==
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: FREE NOTES PLOT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen creates a picture of the small, cocooned world of the middle class gentry -- with their commonplace joys and their commonplace sorrows. The central concern of this "comedy of manners" is Mrs. Bennet�s dogged efforts to find suitable husbands for her eldest daughters. Of course, Mrs. Bennet�s judgements cannot be trusted, for she is a nagging wife, an ineffectual mother, and a social misfit throughout the novel. Her repeated and continued foolishness is one of the things that holds the plot together into a unified whole.
The plot�s focus on marriage is seen from the very beginning of the story. The arrival of Mr. Bingley, �a single man of large fortune� at near-by Netherfield immediately fires the imagination of ....
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=