From 35320295f8c6ffbc7a430117696da434c8b3f2fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Marshall T. Vandegrift" <llasram@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:27:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Temporary (?) fix for multibyte char / record boundary issue.

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
index 77b382e90a..fb5c1118a2 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
@@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ PALMDOC = 2
 HUFFDIC = 17480
 
 def encode(data):
-    #return data.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-    return data.encode('utf-8')
+    # Using UTF-8 means needing to worry about multibyte characters crossing
+    # record boundaries, so let's not for now.
+    return data.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
 
 # Almost like the one for MS LIT, but not quite.
 def decint(value):