Thread: Question marks instead of most special characters - HTML->mobi
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Old 09-29-2012, 11:42 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by vermontcathy View Post
Isn't this always the way it goes? You work on a problem for hours, then finally post on a forum for help, and then figure it out yourself. Sorry about that. I'll leave this here in case it happens to anyone else.

I was overly-enthusiastic in cleaning up Word's HTML, and deleted the following 2 lines in the head. Once I put them back (copied from an earlier version) all was well:

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered)">
It is removing the charset line that causes your problem. An alternative way to have fixed would be to explicitly specify the cp1252 character set in the Calibre conversion settings.
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