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Jellby · 08-21-2008, 08:48 AM

Well, I've reduced the example to this:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>J&rsquo;ai une excuse s&eacute;rieuse&nbsp;:</P>
<P>J&apos;ai une excuse s&eacute;rieuse&nbsp;:</P>
<P>J'ai une excuse s&eacute;rieuse&nbsp;:</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

which, after converting to mobi and back to HTML gives:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />
</head>
<body>
<p>J&rsquo;ai une excuse s&eacute;rieuse :
<p>J'ai une excuse s&eacute;rieuse&nbsp;:
<p>J'ai une excuse s&eacute;rieuse&nbsp;:
</body>
</html>

The problem seems to be the "’", which causes the " " to be converted to a space. The same happens with "”", but not with "»". My guess is something is checking for balanced quote marks. I'd say this is a bug, anyway.

08-21-2008, 08:48 AM	#3
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,516 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Well, I've reduced the example to this: Code: <HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY> <P>J’ai une excuse sérieuse :</P> <P>J'ai une excuse sérieuse :</P> <P>J'ai une excuse sérieuse :</P> </BODY> </HTML> which, after converting to mobi and back to HTML gives: Code: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> </head> <body> <p>J’ai une excuse sérieuse : <p>J'ai une excuse sérieuse : <p>J'ai une excuse sérieuse : </body> </html> The problem seems to be the "’", which causes the " " to be converted to a space. The same happens with "”", but not with "»". My guess is something is checking for balanced quote marks. I'd say this is a bug, anyway.