MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Enhancement request: special characters, invisible characters and html entities.

BetterRed · 04-08-2020, 08:41 AM

I know you want the editor to be enhanced, but meantime here's a couple of ideas you might want to try.

You might prefer using the Sigil editor, e.g. it displays #173; in the codeview window for shy etc. If you add Sigil to calibre's open with list for epubs (right click EPUB in book details) you can then give it a shortcut, I use Shift+S,

And/or: In this editor I have the special character set to thus:

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The purple blobs draw my attention to the existence of a special character such as an en-dash, em-dash, shy etc.

BR

04-08-2020, 08:41 AM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,797 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	I know you want the editor to be enhanced, but meantime here's a couple of ideas you might want to try. You might prefer using the Sigil editor, e.g. it displays #173; in the codeview window for shy etc. If you add Sigil to calibre's open with list for epubs (right click EPUB in book details) you can then give it a shortcut, I use Shift+S, And/or: In this editor I have the special character set to thus: The purple blobs draw my attention to the existence of a special character such as an en-dash, em-dash, shy etc. BR