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JSWolf · 05-28-2013, 07:02 PM

Those are not unwanted characters. Those are actually the characters you do want. They are displaying incorrectly because of the wrong encoding being used.

In the header right after the title (if needed), I put the following...

Code:

<title>Cat &amp; Mouse</title>
<meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>

I cannot speak for the current Sigil, but in a pre-0.7.x version, when it got the code page wrong, it could convert things like your quotes to those sorts of characters and if you saved, your screwed.

05-28-2013, 07:02 PM	#2
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,798 Karma: 146391129 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Those are not unwanted characters. Those are actually the characters you do want. They are displaying incorrectly because of the wrong encoding being used. In the header right after the title (if needed), I put the following... Code: <title>Cat & Mouse</title> <meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> I cannot speak for the current Sigil, but in a pre-0.7.x version, when it got the code page wrong, it could convert things like your quotes to those sorts of characters and if you saved, your screwed. Last edited by JSWolf; 05-28-2013 at 07:07 PM.