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Kelli Jae Baeli
Inspiring
May 24, 2023
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exported epub has weird symbols replacing numbers

  • May 24, 2023
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Exported epub has weird symbols replacing numbers, and also moves them to the front of the line of text. As below, in the screenshots, notice that It should say "AKA Investigations Series, #1", and in the second, it should say "Circa 2010."
Can any of you brilliant people tell me why this happens? I've never seen it before.

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Correct answer James Gifford—NitroPress

Opened it in Calibre ebook editor, saw this in the code. I'm assuming that's Arabian, Saudi Arabia?


Yes, it's a language code for Arabic (one of them). And an RTL directive following. This text has been assigned a language you probably didn't intend.

 

What's the source and history of this doc file? Did you create it from scratch, or import work/files from elsewhere? Check the Paragraph Style for the affected text and make sure the language is set to English.

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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May 24, 2023

It appears that a  Middle-Eastern font is involved in your samples, which might also change the reading sequence to right-to-left (opposite of English and other European languages which sequence left-to-right).

 

Can you tell us which font is used for the missing/switched characters?

 

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Kelli Jae Baeli
Inspiring
May 24, 2023

Well, it says it's Garamond Premiere Pro, which i always use (Adobe). I even highlighted the spaces between and applied font, to be sure i wasn't missing some coding. and that was also assigned Garamond.

Kelli Jae Baeli
Inspiring
May 24, 2023

and I've never used a Middle Eastern font...