From 4bd766bd49a1e7762ec653ae0f32266357fff1ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:48:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MOBI Output: Remove soft hyphens as the Kindle doesn't
 support them. Fixes #4887 (Treatment of italics when converting to Mobi)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
index c5bcee7e45..8de702a617 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ class Serializer(object):
         text = text.replace('&', '&amp;')
         text = text.replace('<', '&lt;')
         text = text.replace('>', '&gt;')
+        text = text.replace(u'\u00AD', '') # Soft-hyphen
         if quot:
             text = text.replace('"', '&quot;')
         self.buffer.write(encode(text))