A font problem in Kindle reader after converting from EPUB to MOBI

[padipspaul96]

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Getting this type of numbers arranged in a square shape in between words. Are there any settings I should change while converting?
Also, this EPUB does not have any font problems when opened as EPUB in Play books on my android mobile. Thanks

[theducks]

The numbers in those boxes are the character codes that the device font is missing.
If there are no embedded fonts, then select a different font on the device

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by padipspaul96

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Getting this type of numbers arranged in a square shape in between words. Are there any settings I should change while converting?
Also, this EPUB does not have any font problems when opened as EPUB in Play books on my android mobile. Thanks

Don't convert to Mobi. Convert to KF8 (AW3). Mobi cannot handle what you want.

[DNSB]

Just for those who are having trouble seeing the image from the first message.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Just for those who are having trouble seeing the image from the first message.

It's hard to read what's in those squares, but it looks very much like some ancient glyphs I sometimes find in older texts. I see this kind of display in my text editor, but in other displays (LibreOffice Writer) they will appear as little widgets. They are almost always punctuation, as they are in OP's example. I have saved searches to fix them in the Editor; here is a little cheat sheet.

[padipspaul96]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

It's hard to read what's in those squares, but it looks very much like some ancient glyphs I sometimes find in older texts. I see this kind of display in my text editor, but in other displays (LibreOffice Writer) they will appear as little widgets. They are almost always punctuation, as they are in OP's example. I have saved searches to fix them in the Editor; here is a little cheat sheet.

Yes, you are right. They are punctuations, To be precise, these symbols (numbers 0, 0, 9, 2) are replacing single and double-quotes.

Sorry but I am a noob to all this Calibre and Kindle, so how to use your cheat sheet to remove these symbols? Can you explain this in detail?

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by padipspaul96

Yes, you are right. They are punctuations, To be precise, these symbols (numbers 0, 0, 9, 2) are replacing single and double-quotes.

Sorry but I am a noob to all this Calibre and Kindle, so how to use your cheat sheet to remove these symbols? Can you explain this in detail?

You have to open the epub in the editor and do a search and replace on the odd characters. Plain search, not regex. Just carefully highlight the oddbal and hit hit Ctrl-F to bring up the seatch. Then put in the correct character to replace it in the replace box. Use the Insert Special Character tool to easily put in, for example, an M-dash. The cheat sheet will show you which one goes where...but pretty easy to figure out from the context. Probably safe to do a Replace All on these, but test it first with a few single Find/Replace steps before you let it rip.

If you have several books like this, save the searches to make it easier the next time.

Search should look something like this: