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Old 07-09-2022, 01:07 PM   #230
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Originally Posted by ickam View Post
Every epub that I tried to convert since they announced epub support for send to kindle has come out with messed up apostrophes and special characters, although I didn't change the extension. Anything I can do to fix that?
I'm going to assume that you have access to calibre, calibre's ModifyEpub plugin, Sigil and Sigil's EpubCheck plugin.
  • Import the epub into calibre
  • Run the ModifyEpub plugin with the Encode HTML in UTF-8 option checked.
  • Open the epub with Sigil. Say no to the Automatically Fix errors
  • Run Mend or Mend and Prettify from the Tools menu
  • Run EpubCheck. If any errors, fix them
  • Save the epub and then send it to Amazon

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Edit: This is the process I've used and so far my limited testing hasn't had failure or odd looking output.
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