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    <p>Originally Posted by mrh882 View Post 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.</p>
    
    <p>Hopefully someone knows why this is happening and what I can do to fix
    it.</p>
    
    <p>Thanks for the help!! reconvert with the checkbox in 'look &amp; feel'
    that is labled 'transliterate unicode characters to ascii" checked.</p>
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  <p><a href="https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144247" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144247</a></p>
  
  <p>The <code>transliterate</code> checkbox fixed my error, FWIW.  The publisher is <a href="https://www.sterlingpublishing.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">sterling</a>, BTW, and, no I haven't, as of yet, checked that it's valid. </p>
  
  <p>The Calibre note for that check box gives an example of going from Russian Cyrrilic to the English alphabet.  Perhaps it's an internationalization problem.</p>
  
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Body: <p>To convert <code>epub</code> to <code>mobi</code> I utilized on <a href="https://www.epubconverter.com/epub-to-mobi-converter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">online</a> tool, but it seems to have resulted in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/36108790/262852">odd</a> unicode errors.  Throughout the text there are <code>0092</code>, <code>0093</code> and <code>0094</code> in place of punctuation.</p>
  
  <p>Is this likely to to be a problem with the source material?  Perhaps the author just used strange punctuation which results in hiccups and glitches during conversion?  Or, is this more likely a problem with the online converter?</p>
  
  <p>I'll probably have to convert <a href="https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=227861" rel="nofollow noreferrer">manually</a> with <code>Calibre</code>, which looks <a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/344339/45156">doable</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Might this be a <a href="https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/q/634/9853">problem</a> with Amazon, or the Kindle e-ink reader itself?</p>
  
  <p><em>There are <a href="https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/q/7719/9853">some</a> issues with sending <code>azw</code> or <code>azw3</code> to Kindle cloud via e-mail.</em></p>
  
Tags: <epub><calibre><conversion><mobi><file-format>
Title: How to correct unicode errors after converting file format?
UserDisplayName: Thufir
ThreadText: # How to correct unicode errors after converting file format?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-03-27)
  
  To convert `epub` to `mobi` I utilized on [online](https://www.epubconverter.com/epub-to-mobi-converter/) tool, but it seems to have resulted in [odd](https://stackoverflow.com/q/36108790/262852) unicode errors. Throughout the text there are `0092`, `0093` and `0094` in place of punctuation.
  
  Is this likely to to be a problem with the source material? Perhaps the author just used strange punctuation which results in hiccups and glitches during conversion? Or, is this more likely a problem with the online converter?
  
  I'll probably have to convert [manually](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=227861) with `Calibre`, which looks [doable](https://askubuntu.com/q/344339/45156).
  
  Might this be a [problem](https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/q/634/9853) with Amazon, or the Kindle e-ink reader itself?
  
  *There are [some](https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/q/7719/9853) issues with sending `azw` or `azw3` to Kindle cloud via e-mail.*
  
  **Tags:** epub, calibre, conversion, mobi, file-format
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2018-12-29. Score: 1
  
  > Originally Posted by mrh882 View Post 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.
  
  <https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144247>
  
  The `transliterate` checkbox fixed my error, FWIW. The publisher is [sterling](https://www.sterlingpublishing.com/), BTW, and, no I haven't, as of yet, checked that it's valid.
  
  The Calibre note for that check box gives an example of going from Russian Cyrrilic to the English alphabet. Perhaps it's an internationalization problem.
  
  
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