From 57a3fee974aca3b9563961c3e1b20a9f92977367 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:07:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1137 (Soft Hyphens on Epub file)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/epub/__init__.py | 2 ++
 src/calibre/ebooks/html.py          | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/__init__.py
index 1d8b6e6b4c..8b95c5c0a8 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/__init__.py
@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@ class DefaultProfile(object):
     
     flow_size   = sys.maxint
     screen_size = None
+    remove_soft_hyphens = False
     
 class PRS505(DefaultProfile):
     
     flow_size   = 300000
     screen_size = (600, 775)
+    remove_soft_hyphens = True
         
 
 PROFILES = {
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py
index 7a1ef56ad0..ea968edd53 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py
@@ -364,6 +364,9 @@ class PreProcessor(object):
         return '<!-- created by calibre\'s pdftohtml -->' in src[:1000]
                           
     def preprocess(self, html):
+        opts = getattr(self, 'opts', False)
+        if opts and hasattr(opts, 'profile') and getattr(opts.profile, 'remove_soft_hyphens', False):
+            html = html.replace(u'\u00ad', '')
         if self.is_baen(html):
             rules = []
         elif self.is_book_designer(html):