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Old 10-18-2015, 11:12 PM   #1
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Angry ePub to Mobi conversion strips accented characters and replaces with unaccented ones

Hi, I acquired a book containing Serbo-Croatian characters in epub format. Looking at it in the Calibre viewer(as an epub) all the accented characters appear correctly. Once I convert the document to mobi (using Calibre) the accented characters are only shown as the unaccented base character (e.g. ŝ becomes a plain s, Č becomes C etc.).

After reading the forums, I downloaded the 'KindleAllCodes' file as a mobi from here, uploaded it to my Kindle, and lo and behold, all the characters are displayed correctly. So I know the Kindle is capable of displaying the characters correctly. I also know the file is correctly encoded because I can see the characters in the epub.

My assumption is that somehow the conversion process is stripping the accents from the characters.

Does anyone know what I need to do to make the conversion work?

TIA,

Michael

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