Thread: I am getting strange characters when i load an ebook
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Old 09-17-2012, 10:39 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by irow View Post
Hi

I am new here so I hope I posted in the right place.

I borrowed an epub ebook from my library to read and when i load it into the calibre library and double click on it, I get this:



I take it this is not normal? Can you tell me the exact step-by-step instructions to fix it? Calibre has a lot of settings and I feel overwhelmed looking at them.
(force)Set the conversion Codepage option to CP1252 (there are balloon help hints for others, if that one does not solve it)
Those appear to be 'curly quotes" and your source does nt clearly define which CP was used. Calibre guessed wrong, so you need to force it
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