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mrmikel · 10-14-2009, 01:05 PM

In calibre under look and feel, input character encoding you can try different encodings to see if they match what you have. cp1252, utf-8 iso 8859-1 are some possibilities. There is another thread on encodings I happened to see another day, you might search for it. I did not find an official list of what calibre accepts and in just exactly what format.

Or you can open the document in a notepad like program and see what they are using for these odd characters. You can do a search for the & symbol and replace all the characters that have this encoding with keyboard characters. Then you will be closer to ascii. If you find a character while you are in your notepad program, copy it and paste into the search area of your browser and hit enter. Google at least will gladly print it for you. Then you will know what you need to search and replace with, being sure to wrap around so you get all of them.

10-14-2009, 01:05 PM	#4
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	weird ascii In calibre under look and feel, input character encoding you can try different encodings to see if they match what you have. cp1252, utf-8 iso 8859-1 are some possibilities. There is another thread on encodings I happened to see another day, you might search for it. I did not find an official list of what calibre accepts and in just exactly what format. Or you can open the document in a notepad like program and see what they are using for these odd characters. You can do a search for the & symbol and replace all the characters that have this encoding with keyboard characters. Then you will be closer to ascii. If you find a character while you are in your notepad program, copy it and paste into the search area of your browser and hit enter. Google at least will gladly print it for you. Then you will know what you need to search and replace with, being sure to wrap around so you get all of them.