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Old 10-06-2009, 01:51 PM   #1
Sassyinkpen
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Question Quote marks not formatting in .TXT to .EPUB?

I'm having a new problem with converting TXT files to EPUB and loading them onto my iTouch, that I was not having before, but I don't know what changed.

Last night, I added several TXT files to Calibre, converted them EPUB and pulled them into Stanza on my iTouch (Just like I've done several times before)

But this time, in most of the files on the iTouch, all the quotation marks render as a black diamond with a question mark in it. Now, I've seen that symbol before in files, where there is odd punctuation, and I've had that happen to apostrophes before....but not to all the quote marks. I can handle a few of those, but this is unreadable.

I'm at a loss to figure out what's changed or how to fix it, because no explanation covers ALL the file problems.


All of these TXT files are created using Save As, while sitting on various webpages and LiveJournal entries.


* I'm running version 0.6.16, and I wish I could remember if ALL the messed up files were done after I last updated. Is there any known new issue?

* Most of the files I loaded last night had been saved on a machine running Vista, rather than XP (on the comp where I use Calibre) - Does Vista do anything hinky to TXT files? BUT at least one of the messed up files I KNOW I saved on the XP machine.

* At least one of the files I loaded last night looks fine, like they have been since I started using Calibre a couple weeks ago, so this doesn't seem to be a universal problem, except that I just wasn't having it before last night, and now MOST of the files are going bad.

* Could this be an issue with Smart Quotes, and can they even travel in a TXT file?



Does anyone know anything about this, or have any suggestions for me?

Calbre has been BRILLANT for managing all the blog entries, articles and short stories that I'be been saving off the internet, and I REALLY want to be able to keep using it.

Thanks!
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