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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
check the keep ligatures option in conversion settings.
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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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