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Old 12-06-2013, 03:36 AM   #4
kindlefireHD
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Sounds like the character encoding for the source material was declared wrong before it was fed to a mobi converter.

You'd have to unpack the mobi and experiment with some different encodings until those characters displayed properly, then change any encoding statements in the documents to match and reconvert. EditPad Lite allows you to display text as if it were encoded differently. I've found it invaluable for finding/changing encodings in this manner.
Thank you for your help. I downloaded the KindleUnpack plugin directly from Calibre, and it created a folder containing:
mobi7 folder (containing an html, ncx and opf files, and Images folder)
mobi8 folder (containing epub and mimetype files and META-INF and OEBPS folders)
kindlegensrc.zip

How can I change the encoding and repack it to mobi? For example I can see that the html file also contains these weird characters.

Thank you for your help!
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