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jhowell · 11-12-2022, 02:27 PM

That book uses custom fonts that map some codepoints to non-standard glyphs. You need to have those fonts enabled in order for the book to render properly. On the Kindle make sure that you have "Publisher font" selected as your font choice, otherwise incorrect characters will be shown as you indicated.

It looks to me like that book was originally created using a pre-Unicode 8-bit character set, such as Windows-1252, and the publisher substituted unused characters with those needed for the book.

11-12-2022, 02:27 PM	#2
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,073 Karma: 91577715 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	That book uses custom fonts that map some codepoints to non-standard glyphs. You need to have those fonts enabled in order for the book to render properly. On the Kindle make sure that you have "Publisher font" selected as your font choice, otherwise incorrect characters will be shown as you indicated. It looks to me like that book was originally created using a pre-Unicode 8-bit character set, such as Windows-1252, and the publisher substituted unused characters with those needed for the book. Last edited by jhowell; 11-12-2022 at 02:34 PM.