German Language Problems?

[rifleman]

Hello everybody!

I have a nice problem converting German TXTs to MOBI:

What I do: I have some old German books in scanned PDF format, 2 column text. Therefore a direct conversion does not work. So I save in Acrobat reader to TXT, and use Calibre to convert to MOBI.

This works fine quite often, but some letter-combinations switch the complete special characters of german language to some other characters.

for example the word "größte" (what means "biggest", no rare word) appears in a text, all german special characters "ä,ä, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü and ß" change to some probably norhern european characters.

If I - manually - change all the "...ößt..." combinations to the not so correct "...össt...", the complete text appears correctly.

A bug in calibre, or is it me who is doing something wrong?

many thanks in advance...

Werner

[kovidgoyal]

See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....r-smart-quotes