Conversion of HTML to UTF-8

lippy · 09-19-2010, 05:06 PM

I'm trying to convert a few CHM files with iso-8859-1 format. I'm getting some characters being converted incorrectly: for example:

instead of '-' I get 'Â'

I've attached a text file with a few examples of the characters.

At first I thought it was something to do with the chm conversion, but I extracted the underlying HTML files and I got similar results.

I've tried explicitly setting the "input character encoding" to iso-8859-1 and it didn't help. I also tried setting it on the html to zip plug in, to no avail.

Any ideas?

kovidgoyal · 09-19-2010, 05:35 PM

convert the html directly and specify the correct character encoding.

lippy · 09-20-2010, 04:41 PM

Sorry if I wasn't clear in my original post, but that's what I tried - I extracted the html and tried to convert and specified the correct character encoding. I still get things like: Â littered through-out.

Thanks

kovidgoyal · 09-20-2010, 04:46 PM

In that case your html isnt utf-8

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09-19-2010, 05:35 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,268 Karma: 27111060 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	convert the html directly and specify the correct character encoding.

09-20-2010, 04:41 PM	#3
lippy Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle dx	Sorry if I wasn't clear in my original post, but that's what I tried - I extracted the html and tried to convert and specified the correct character encoding. I still get things like: Â littered through-out. Thanks

09-20-2010, 04:46 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,268 Karma: 27111060 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	In that case your html isnt utf-8

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