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Old 02-14-2010, 11:17 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
Hi Laura,
Have you tried running the PDF to TXT conversion with the
Convert E-books/Look-and-Feel/Transliterate unicode chars to ASCII
box checked?
Your curly smart-quotes should then look like standard straight quotes.

regards, Jackie
I'm having the same problem... I just tried this, but it didn't improve much.

Examples:

in the source PDF:
"Thank you," I whispered to the moon.

When converted to epub:
?Thank you,? I whispered to the moon.

When converted to text with the Transliterate option selected:
--Thank you,|| I whispered to the moon.

I guess this at least lets me do a global search & replace on -- & || to change them to ".
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