Thread: special characters in epub?
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Old 08-23-2008, 04:06 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by biltron View Post
I have created an epub file that contains some special characters that do not translate properly when viewed as an epub on Adobe Digital Editions. However, the underlying xhtml file, when viewed on a web browser or inside Dreamweaver, shows the proper characters. I'm using an OpenType font (Arno Pro) - and InDesign to prepare the doc and export it to epub. To the point, my question is this... does anybody know why special characters would be displayed correctly in xhtml but not when wrapped in epub? BTW the special characters show up as "?"
Adobe DE doesn't support the entirety of the Unicode standard. Not all characters lacking a direct character-to-glyph mapping (my pet peeve: the fixed-width spaces characters) are displayed correctly, the ones not understood by DE being replaced with the '?' mark you are seeing. The only current solution -- complain to Adobe and work around it if possible.

If you mention the specific characters in question here someone may be able to help you out.
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