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mrmikel · 10-14-2009, 05:54 AM

Sometimes texts that are advertised as ASCII are not really. If you look at the text the apostrophes, quotes, etc have & in front of them then a series of numbers such as &8216#.

As I understand it, calibre tries to guess what the text is and when it guesses wrong you get these odd symbols.

You can go through using a search and replace to eliminate them, which is a lot of work or you specify the code page or encoding and see if that makes them go away.

A lot of times cp1252 will work.

Some day this will all be settled, but by then most of us will not be making books for ourselves as many of us no longer write BASIC programs to accomplish what we want to do with a computer.

10-14-2009, 05:54 AM	#2
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	Probably not ascii Sometimes texts that are advertised as ASCII are not really. If you look at the text the apostrophes, quotes, etc have & in front of them then a series of numbers such as &8216#. As I understand it, calibre tries to guess what the text is and when it guesses wrong you get these odd symbols. You can go through using a search and replace to eliminate them, which is a lot of work or you specify the code page or encoding and see if that makes them go away. A lot of times cp1252 will work. Some day this will all be settled, but by then most of us will not be making books for ourselves as many of us no longer write BASIC programs to accomplish what we want to do with a computer.