From 1aa66f42fe809583a5fa462e26a9514042864db2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:45:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] TXT Output: clean ascii characters. Textile output remove
 span attributes.

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py    | 2 ++
 src/calibre/ebooks/txt/textileml.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py
index 3905081a84..d021cbbba6 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import OEB_IMAGES
 from calibre.ebooks.txt.txtml import TXTMLizer
 from calibre.ebooks.txt.newlines import TxtNewlines, specified_newlines
 from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory, TemporaryFile
+from calibre.utils.cleantext import clean_ascii_chars
 from calibre.utils.zipfile import ZipFile
 
 class TXTOutput(OutputFormatPlugin):
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ class TXTOutput(OutputFormatPlugin):
             writer = TXTMLizer(log)
 
         txt = writer.extract_content(oeb_book, opts)
+        txt = clean_ascii_chars(txt)
 
         log.debug('\tReplacing newlines with selected type...')
         txt = specified_newlines(TxtNewlines(opts.newline).newline, txt)
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/textileml.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/textileml.py
index d7e11695c5..284e4846d9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/textileml.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/textileml.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class TextileMLizer(object):
                 html = re.sub(r'<\s*img[^>]*>', '', html)
 
             text = html2textile(html)
+            text = text.replace('%', '')
 
             # Ensure the section ends with at least two new line characters.
             # This is to prevent the last paragraph from a section being