Odd Characters When Sending .mobi to Kindle 3

mrh882 · 07-25-2011, 10:20 PM

I have an ebook that looks fine in Calibre and the Kindle viewer. No weird characters. When I send it to my K3, however, I get squares with question marks in them. These are not replacing any characters - sometimes before a comma, after a comma, or in the middle of a sentence.

Hopefully someone knows why this is happening and what I can do to fix it.

Thanks for the help!!

alansplace · 07-25-2011, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by mrh882

I have an ebook that looks fine in Calibre and the Kindle viewer. No weird characters. When I send it to my K3, however, I get squares with question marks in them. These are not replacing any characters - sometimes before a comma, after a comma, or in the middle of a sentence.

Hopefully someone knows why this is happening and what I can do to fix it.

Thanks for the help!!

reconvert with the checkbox in 'look & feel' that is labled 'transliterate unicode characters to ascii" checked.

mrh882 · 07-27-2011, 04:03 PM

Whoo hoo!!

Thanks a ton, Alan. I really appreciate the help - that worked perfectly.

alansplace · 07-27-2011, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrh882

Whoo hoo!!

Thanks a ton, Alan. I really appreciate the help - that worked perfectly.

you're welcome

07-25-2011, 10:20 PM	#1
mrh882 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: K3	Odd Characters When Sending .mobi to Kindle 3 I have an ebook that looks fine in Calibre and the Kindle viewer. No weird characters. When I send it to my K3, however, I get squares with question marks in them. These are not replacing any characters - sometimes before a comma, after a comma, or in the middle of a sentence. Hopefully someone knows why this is happening and what I can do to fix it. Thanks for the help!!

07-27-2011, 04:03 PM	#3
mrh882 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: K3	Yay! Whoo hoo!! Thanks a ton, Alan. I really appreciate the help - that worked perfectly.

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