Ok, I haven't coded the work around yet, but I am pretty confident it will work. I basically did a global search and replace on the &# part of the character encoding. Then I ran it through html2fb.pl and then did another global search and replace to restore the encoding. Worked like a charm.
. Of course, this was with a relatively simple book. We will have to see what happens with more complicated texts.
Still, if I can get it working reasonably smoothly, it might make the Jetbook viable for me; at least until they get better support.
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Bill