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Boo-Frickety-Hoo-Erizer
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Busted Curlies
This USED to work........
I've got some ebooks I've been updating recently in MobiCreator. The Curly Quotes and Curly Apostrophes are now showing as unprintable characters in MobiPocket. (a box) To my ever-lovin'-best-knowledge, I did not change the encoding on either the source files nor the opf. Did I turn something off? This is using mobiPocket Creator V4.2 build 41. In fact - I'm looking at 2 files, both with the curly apostrophe encoded as [’] one works in Mobi, the other doesn't. Are there Brilliances to be had? -bjc Last edited by brewt; 03-24-2009 at 08:39 PM. |
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This is typically caused by an encoding mismatch. Either the base HTML (or whatever) is specifying windows-1252 but using UTF-8 or isn't specifying anything and you are getting windows-1252 by default. The default can be changed to UTF-8 under Tools -> Settings -> Default Encoding. If the imported document has the wrong setting then this needs to be changed too.
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Boo-Frickety-Hoo-Erizer
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Hmmm. My old friend Word (which is what I concocted the html in - don't say it) says it is encoding in Western European ISO, when I Open the file in TED, it says the carriage returns are in Win/Ansi, the file header says <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">, and Mobi says it's default (and document-specific) encoding is Western Windows 1252.
The code used for the apostrophe is [& # 8 2 1 7 ;] (had to space it to keep from making one when posted). If I make a New Document out of the air, it all seems fine. Wonder how I broke what I had...... -bjc |
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Maybe you are using a font that does not have those characters?
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I found that, using the recent build of Mobipocket Creator, you need to insert into your .html, in the <head> section, the following line for all those nice HTML entities to be properly represented:
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> |
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I believe that if the quotes are written with &# 8271; or & rsquo; or whatever, the particular encoding used does not matter at all.
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