From 403865c914aad5a93e7b2bc32b418ce82cf8d6f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:22:59 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Replace instead of ignoring

---
 src/calibre/db/tables.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/db/tables.py b/src/calibre/db/tables.py
index 6d578e788c..57ca395f4c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/db/tables.py
+++ b/src/calibre/db/tables.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class OneToOneTable(Table):
                 # failures to decode utf-8
                 query = db.conn.execute('SELECT {0}, cast({1} as blob) FROM {2}'.format(idcol,
                     self.metadata['column'], self.metadata['table']))
-                self.book_col_map = {k:bytes(val).decode('utf-8', 'ignore') for k, val in query}
+                self.book_col_map = {k:bytes(val).decode('utf-8', 'replace') for k, val in query}
         else:
             us = self.unserialize
             self.book_col_map = {book_id:us(val) for book_id, val in query}