From eec398a8c505e99f42c797148d0474f59004f277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:42:11 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/widgets.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/widgets.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/widgets.py
index 56adb49dff..d2788703d6 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/widgets.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/widgets.py
@@ -252,10 +252,9 @@ class ImportForeign(Dialog):  # {{{
 
 def make_highlighted_text(emph, text, positions):
     positions = sorted(set(positions) - {-1}, reverse=True)
-    text = prepare_string_for_xml(text)
     for p in positions:
         ch = get_char(text, p)
-        text = '%s<span style="%s">%s</span>%s' % (text[:p], emph, ch, text[p+len(ch):])
+        text = '%s<span style="%s">%s</span>%s' % (prepare_string_for_xml(text[:p]), emph, ch, prepare_string_for_xml(text[p+len(ch):]))
     return text