Reply To: Invalid characters in index

Peter, thank you for finding the invalid character—a small square—in the topic names. As you explained, it was Unicode 11, which in the InDesign documents you can search for (in the Grep tab) using \x{0011}. The script you wrote found and deleted these in the book documents and also deleted the leading spaces that created separate topics, AND it successfully reverted the codes I had added in the Index panel for what might have been other suspect characters when the index was generated.

The result was a clean, well-formed index list that I can work with in exporting the book to EPUB and MOBI now, with a minimum of intervention that is content-related at this point.

So, so grateful. I hope I can provide someone with this level of assistance some day.