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Old 05-28-2013, 06:51 PM   #1
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How to correct odd, unwanted characters in an epub?
I've browsed the Sigil forum and Conversion sub-forum looking for a solution without success. I have an epub loaded with the following characters and cannot figure out how to correct the entire book. In conversions I have tried, individually: 'Unsmarten punctuation,' 'Transliterate unicode characters to ASCII,' and also selected utf-8 in 'input character encoding.' Nothing seems to work. Here are the unwanted characters:

â (throughout the text, possibly replacing single quotation marks)
 (between chapter breaks)

and then this - which I think is meant to be the word protégé with accents aigu:

protégé

I cannot do a simple search and replace in Sigil since the characters may represent more than one character and I have no idea what they might be.

Does anyone have a solution or suggestion how to correct this? Is there a conversion setting I am missing?
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