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Old 10-16-2012, 05:22 PM   #1
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Help with Apostrophes

I imported a few hundred text files into Calibre, spending quite a bit of time carefully setting up the author, series etc. I converted them to ePub and imported them into my Sony reader.

Only after doing all the work did I notice that a lot of them were displaying apostrophes on the reader as a question mark. In Calibre's reader they were not displaying at all.

I traced the problem to the originator of the text files choosing to use 0x92 as an apostrophe in a lot of the files. This is actually an acute accent, I think. And, interestingly, Calibre is converting it to a 0xC2 followed by a 0x92 in the epub. And not displaying it / them.

I'm not blaming Calibre for this, But, can anyone suggest how to recover from this without an insane amount of work?

Thanks, D
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