From c2d85e81b772e54c7f946392ead78b4ed1c0b607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:45:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MOBI Input: Ignore all ASCII control codes except CR, NL and
 Tab. Fixes #9219 (Instapaper magazine can't be shown in ebook-viewer)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
index 9c52a18691..f1b1b1ef63 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from calibre import xml_entity_to_unicode, CurrentDir, entity_to_unicode, \
     replace_entities
 from calibre.utils.filenames import ascii_filename
 from calibre.utils.date import parse_date
+from calibre.utils.cleantext import clean_ascii_chars
 from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory
 from calibre.ebooks import DRMError
 from calibre.ebooks.chardet import ENCODING_PATS
@@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ class MobiReader(object):
         self.cleanup_html()
 
         self.log.debug('Parsing HTML...')
+        self.processed_html = clean_ascii_chars(self.processed_html)
         try:
             root = html.fromstring(self.processed_html)
             if len(root.xpath('//html')) > 5: