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Old 05-14-2013, 12:35 PM   #38
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Outputting odt with named entities

I tried to convert my odt file using named entities. My converter (writer2xhtml) allows me to do that. Now Sigil 0.7.2 is very happy and display the real   that he finds immediately on the EPUB. However, there is a drawback...
é is now &eacute
French quotes become &laquo and &raquo
and so on....

See screenshot.

The text in Book-view is fine, but in Code view, it's very difficult to read and furthermore these entities fool totally the spellchecker.

So, the advised medecine seems to be worse than the illness. We cannot honestly recommend to output odt using named entities, because of these kind of problems, at least in French where we have lots of accents.
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