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Calenorn · 10-23-2013, 11:59 AM

So converting from epub to epub in calibre seems to have replaced all the fancy curved close-quotation marks into a short string of unusual characters. I've seen it do this with a long dash symbol as well. Looks like I will have to go to each segment of the book and find-replace-all to change them back into simple keyboard quotation marks.

So what is that short character string called? They don't seem to be standard HTML tags. Do they always correspond to the same character, or are they random? If consistently the same, are they specific to calibre or are they used elsewhere? And can anyone point me toward a list of them somewhere?

Thanks in advance!

C.:

10-23-2013, 11:59 AM	#1
Calenorn Brash Fumbler Posts: 1,203 Karma: 9224939 Join Date: May 2013 Device: NST, Kobo Mini	Again, the noob. So converting from epub to epub in calibre seems to have replaced all the fancy curved close-quotation marks into a short string of unusual characters. I've seen it do this with a long dash symbol as well. Looks like I will have to go to each segment of the book and find-replace-all to change them back into simple keyboard quotation marks. So what is that short character string called? They don't seem to be standard HTML tags. Do they always correspond to the same character, or are they random? If consistently the same, are they specific to calibre or are they used elsewhere? And can anyone point me toward a list of them somewhere? Thanks in advance! C.: