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Old 07-15-2008, 08:38 PM   #88
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BD just won't do diacritical marks, such as the macrons you mention, VR. It will do circumflexes [ô, â] which are sometimes an adequate substitute.

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules View Post
I'm having a new frustration with BD today with diacritical marks. I took a text file that didn't use diacritical marks, opened it with BD, fixed it up with added images and such and also the correct diacritic marks (well, I think they're correct) like: ō, ū, ā, which I copied individually from Wikipedia into BD. When I create an LRF ebook, I get:

& # 3 3 3 ; (I've put spaces between the actual characters so they don't get interpreted by the forum software)

instead of ō, etc. So I diddled with the language setting and have tried all of them to no avail. I did this by saving the file, changing the language setting in BD, exiting, and then reopening the file with BD. No change. So I saved an HTML file and then opened it with Internet Explorer. No problem - the characters are correctly displayed. So I opened that HTML with BD and now the problem characters are totally missing. I'm at a loss at how to get these characters inserted into BD so that I can create ebooks with it. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
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