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Originally Posted by michaelbr
Got a back up file and now everything is fine. Thanks so much for your suggestions.
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Great to hear.
But what was the weird character? Can you copy/paste it here?
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Originally Posted by michaelbr
Here's an update, I'm afraid I messed up pretty good the file I was working on, I think when I tried to change from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, I did not reverse back the changes I made, so the weird char got worse and it took me several hours trying to fix it, at the end I gave up.
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EPUB files only use UTF-8, so when you tried changing the encoding, that wasn't a good idea either.
You see this pretty often when characters like the:
— (EM DASH)
turn into:
–
Good tools like Calibre should be able to convert to UTF-8 properly.
But if you already mangled your original beyond repair... usually it's best to do what you did—start from your last good backup.
