Kindle 3: Downloaded news has [?] in some of the articals?

CalgaryToad · 01-27-2011, 06:41 PM

Hello Mobileread - Calibre users.

Let me first off say, thank you! Thank you for making this program, thank you to being awesome... I love this program and I love waking up in the morning to the Calgary Herald on my Kindle 3 wifi.

One problem I have been bumping into is, that some of my scheduled news articles are showing up with [?] symbols in them. Usually a pair of them side by side like this [?][?] and usually with an â in front of it ie... a sentence might read.

"But people who have experience depression in the past often ask, â[?][?]what can I do to help prevent this from happening again?â[?][?]

This can happen 15 times on one page, making it hard to read. I am thinking formatting issue but I have just not been able to hammer it out.

Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this?

I thank you all in advance!

kovidgoyal · 01-27-2011, 08:40 PM

I just committed a possible fix, try it again and see.

CalgaryToad · 01-29-2011, 01:29 AM

It was 90% Better today, only one article in whole paper suffered from this, I will update you again if I see them more then 2 or three times.

Thank you again Kovid your program is fantastic.

CalgaryToad · 01-31-2011, 11:09 AM

Update, it is back and considerably worse, the first article of today's (31'st) Calgary Heard is loaded with the â[?][?].

I count 12 instances of it in the first article about the Egypt uprising.

Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 01-31-2011, 11:23 AM

I tried it right now and didn't see any problems (but then the egypt uprising article was no longer included). I suspect that there are just some cases where the website has different encodings for specific articles, a situation calibre cannot handle, you'll just have to live with it.

CalgaryToad · 02-01-2011, 10:18 AM

Ok thanks! Just figured I would ask, I can not complain about free news paper!
Even though I do have a free subscription to the online vr. of this paper... but it is way easier to read on my kindle.

Thanks again, keep up the good work.

01-27-2011, 06:41 PM	#1
CalgaryToad Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Kindle 3: Downloaded news has [?] in some of the articals? Hello Mobileread - Calibre users. Let me first off say, thank you! Thank you for making this program, thank you to being awesome... I love this program and I love waking up in the morning to the Calgary Herald on my Kindle 3 wifi. One problem I have been bumping into is, that some of my scheduled news articles are showing up with [?] symbols in them. Usually a pair of them side by side like this [?][?] and usually with an â in front of it ie... a sentence might read. "But people who have experience depression in the past often ask, â[?][?]what can I do to help prevent this from happening again?â[?][?] This can happen 15 times on one page, making it hard to read. I am thinking formatting issue but I have just not been able to hammer it out. Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this? I thank you all in advance!

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01-27-2011, 08:40 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I just committed a possible fix, try it again and see.

01-29-2011, 01:29 AM	#3
CalgaryToad Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3	It was 90% Better today, only one article in whole paper suffered from this, I will update you again if I see them more then 2 or three times. Thank you again Kovid your program is fantastic.

01-31-2011, 11:09 AM	#4
CalgaryToad Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Update, it is back and considerably worse, the first article of today's (31'st) Calgary Heard is loaded with the â[?][?]. I count 12 instances of it in the first article about the Egypt uprising. Thanks.

01-31-2011, 11:23 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I tried it right now and didn't see any problems (but then the egypt uprising article was no longer included). I suspect that there are just some cases where the website has different encodings for specific articles, a situation calibre cannot handle, you'll just have to live with it.

02-01-2011, 10:18 AM	#6
CalgaryToad Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Ok thanks! Just figured I would ask, I can not complain about free news paper! Even though I do have a free subscription to the online vr. of this paper... but it is way easier to read on my kindle. Thanks again, keep up the good work.