Smarten quotation marks conversion

pdurrant · 08-23-2012, 06:13 AM

I've come across a Mobipocket ebook converted using calibre 0.7.1 that used U+0093 (Set Transmit State, UTF8 encoding C293) and U+0094 (Cancel Character, UTF8 encoding C293) for left and right double quotation marks.

These are not the right characters to use - they should be U+201C (Left Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809C) and U+201D (Right Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809D).

Does/did calibre smarten quotes with the wrong characters? Or was this a source text problem?

I could delve deeply into this and find the answer myself, but I'm hoping that someone here has the answer at their fingertips (and that the answer is that it's a source text problem!).

Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 08-23-2012, 07:06 AM

I dont recall ever changing the characters generated by smarten punctuation, so if it is generating the correct chars now, it must have been doing so in the Jurassic period, when 0.7.1 was current as well.

pdurrant · 08-23-2012, 07:28 AM

Thanks, Kovid. I've just double-checked, and the current version uses the correct characters when smartening quotation marks.

So it was a source text problem after all.

08-23-2012, 06:13 AM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 73,936 Karma: 315160596 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	Smarten quotation marks conversion I've come across a Mobipocket ebook converted using calibre 0.7.1 that used U+0093 (Set Transmit State, UTF8 encoding C293) and U+0094 (Cancel Character, UTF8 encoding C293) for left and right double quotation marks. These are not the right characters to use - they should be U+201C (Left Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809C) and U+201D (Right Double Quotation Mark, UTF8 encoding E2809D). Does/did calibre smarten quotes with the wrong characters? Or was this a source text problem? I could delve deeply into this and find the answer myself, but I'm hoping that someone here has the answer at their fingertips (and that the answer is that it's a source text problem!). Thanks.

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08-23-2012, 07:06 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I dont recall ever changing the characters generated by smarten punctuation, so if it is generating the correct chars now, it must have been doing so in the Jurassic period, when 0.7.1 was current as well.

08-23-2012, 07:28 AM	#3
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 73,936 Karma: 315160596 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	Thanks, Kovid. I've just double-checked, and the current version uses the correct characters when smartening quotation marks. So it was a source text problem after all.

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