quotations changed to question marks

[maydayp]

ok, so I converted a txt file to epub many times. I wouldn't have bothered as my kobo can read txt, but my kobo touch made all the lines break up. which make the book hard to read. when I converted it to epub all the " or ' got replaced with '?' when I loaded it onto my kobo. the last two times I converted it, all the " or ' marks completely disappeared (when loaded on the calibre reader, converted from pdf and txt).

any suggestions on how to stop the " or ' from disappearing?

just a little comment, I find it harder to read the book without any speech indication then when there are wierdly placed question marks.

[kovidgoyal]

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

[maydayp]

okay, so I've found the encoding style (thanks to open office), how/where do I indicate what encoding style, or what do I check off. I've very little experience with this.

[jackie_w]

There are 2 ways I can think of:

• On the Convert - Look&Feel page enter the correct encoding in the box labelled 'Input character encoding' as you do the conversion
• Open the TXT file in a decent text editor (e.g. Notepad++ if you're a Windows user) and force the TXT to be converted to 'UTF-8' or 'UTF-8 without BOM' encoding (please don't ask me what the difference is ). Then reimport the TXT into Calibre for a standard conversion. It goes without saying that you should visually check that the quote characters look correct in the TXT file before reimporting to Calibre.