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Old 02-24-2009, 12:24 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by alehel View Post
I know there are already posts about special characters not being displayed correctly, but this seems a bit different. I just purchased the O'reily book called "iPhone SDK" by Jonathan Zdziarski. All the letters appear as they should, but the ' get replaced by three square boxes every time. I've never had this problem with other ebooks.

The book in question is a mobi book. I can't test it on my computer as I'm using a Mac system. I've tried installing Times New Roman fonts which I transfered from my Mac system, but they have exactly the problem.

Any ideas?
Yes, you can. FBReader can handle Mobi, and it runs on a Mac.
http://www.fbreader.org/

You could also try calibre, but its Mobi implementation is still in beta.
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
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