From 9e5d8ee682a13e2a7cdaeb278916c3171e3abc0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:11:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
index b3f8160e3a..0c33dffef2 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
@@ -1818,7 +1818,7 @@ class MobiWriter(object):
             text = text.strip()
             if not isinstance(text, unicode):
                 text = text.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
-            text = text.encode('utf-8')
+            text = normalize(text).encode('utf-8')
         else :
             text = "(none)".encode('utf-8')
         return text