Thread: How to normalize smart quotes and apostrophes for Kindle?
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Old 12-06-2022, 05:10 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by mcandre View Post
It's nearly 2023 and Amazon Kindle still does a shite job of rendering Unicode smart quotes and smart apostrophes. Normally when this happens, I edit the reflowable ePUB with the Sigil application, performing four Find & Replace All in all HTML file operations, one for each type of smart quote / apostrophe.

Is there an automated way to accomplish this directly in Calibre? Perhaps an option within the ePUB conversion default configuration, so that converting MOBI -> ePUB or ePUB -> ePUB results in books with strictly ASCII double quotes (") and apostrophes (')?

I already have Kindle Paperwhite set as the default target, but evidently that option is not aggressively ensuring that ebooks are formatted for consumption by Kindles.
Use the Modify ePub plugin with Claibre to set your ePub to be UTF-8. Then that should solve the problem. You can stop all this excess converting.
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