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Old 12-30-2022, 12:19 PM   #1
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Kindle converts -' into weird characters
The book is epub form - appears fine in Calibre, but converts dashes and apostrophes into weird characters when sent to Kindle.
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Old 12-30-2022, 12:21 PM   #2
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Try using the ModifyEpub plugin with the Encode Epub in UTF-8 option checked before sending to your Kindle.
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Old 12-30-2022, 10:18 PM   #3
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Or do an epub to epub conversion in calibre before sending to the kindle.
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Old 01-08-2023, 10:41 AM   #4
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I have been putting up[ with the scrambled characters in punctuation for several months now and your fix is finally letting me read books without annoyance. Thank you so much.

Also, I really appreciate Calibre.
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