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Old 07-09-2010, 04:17 AM   #11
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Letter conversion epub -> mobi - request

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
check the keep ligatures option in conversion settings.
Could you please consider by default not to do, the conversion of "æ,Æ" into "ae,AE" in Calibre in Danish, Norwegian, or Icelandic languages, or Old English (non-latin!) texts, because in these languages it is a distinct letter.

I found this to support it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typogra...g_as_ligatures
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The character Æ - lower case æ (in ancient times named æsc) when used in the Danish, Norwegian, or Icelandic languages, or Old English, is *not* a typographic ligature. It is a distinct letter—a vowel—and when alphabetised, is given a different place in the alphabetic order.
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Æ comes from Medieval Latin, where it was an optional ligature in some words, for example, "Æneas". It is still found as a variant in English and French, but the trend has recently been towards printing the A and E separately.[7] Similarly, Œ and œ, while normally printed as ligatures in French, can be replaced by component letters if technical restrictions require it.
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