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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Hmm, it might indeed be a non-unicode conversion issue. What is the source and how did you make an ePUB from it?
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The source is an html file that I converted to ePub with Calibre. The conversion is pretty good except for the multitude of run-together words apparently caused by the circumflex characters that are visible only in Sigil's code view and not book view. But even though the circumflex characters are visible in code view, Sigil doesn't find them when I copy them into Sigil's search field.
As you suggested, I opened the book in a hex editor, which allowed me to successfully do a search and replace for the circumflex characters. After correcting the errors -- always a missing ellipsis or emdash that caused the words on each side of it to run together, I copied and pasted the corrected file back into Sigil and deleted the original file. The book appears to read fine now.
I'm still not sure what caused the rogue characters to appear in the first place, but at least now I have a readable book and I'll know how to fix the problem if it occurs in the future.
Thanks, everyone, for all the help!
