Problem with em dash, en dash and apostrophes

jerrywat · 10-23-2012, 11:20 AM

When I convert to epub from html the em dashes, en dashes and apostrophes are omitted. I tried changing the character input as suggested in some other threads but it did not help. I have also checked the box to transliterate unicode to ASCI. I would appreciate any help. thanks.

Agama · 10-24-2012, 03:44 AM

Can you make a short html file which demonstrates this and post it to this thread? (Change the extenstion to .txt since .htm files cannot be attached.)

jerrywat · 10-24-2012, 10:24 AM

Thanks for taking a look. The way I created the book was to use the original inDesign files and copied it into word where I formatted. I then saved as html and added graphics and used calibre to make the mobi and epub files.
Jerry

Agama · 10-24-2012, 10:21 PM

Word seems to have added a lot of overhead to the text but it seems to convert to ePub with everything intact. The characters mentioned all show up in the calibre viewer and in ADE. Does my file work ok with your viewer?

I did NOT tick "Transliterate unicode characters to ASCII" and I left the "Input character encoding" blank.

jerrywat · 10-25-2012, 10:43 AM

Thanks so much. I did as you suggested and I got it to work.

10-23-2012, 11:20 AM	#1
jerrywat Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: kindle	Problem with em dash, en dash and apostrophes When I convert to epub from html the em dashes, en dashes and apostrophes are omitted. I tried changing the character input as suggested in some other threads but it did not help. I have also checked the box to transliterate unicode to ASCI. I would appreciate any help. thanks.

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10-24-2012, 03:44 AM	#2
Agama Guru Posts: 776 Karma: 2751519 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK Device: PW2, Nexus7	Can you make a short html file which demonstrates this and post it to this thread? (Change the extenstion to .txt since .htm files cannot be attached.)

10-25-2012, 10:43 AM	#5
jerrywat Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: kindle	Thanks so much. I did as you suggested and I got it to work.