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Originally Posted by snarkophilus
In an Explorer window on Windows 7, click the "Organize" button on the top left, then the "Folder and search options" button. In the "View" table, uncheck the "Hide extensions for known file types" option. This then should include the file extension in the filenames in the Explorer windows, and allow you to change the .epub to .zip (with some warning about making the file potentially unusable). You should also be able to rename the epub file from a DOS command prompt as well.
I'm still confused by you saying that you change the first line of a (all?) html file to <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> but that it doesn't seem to "stick" in the epub. If you skip opening in Reader Library and re-open straight away after editing with Sigil again is the line there correctly? I shouldn't think that Reader Library would modify the epubs, but I don't know for sure.
Cheers,
Simon.
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I am confused as well! I did try to open it immediately after closing and before opening with RL and the line was gone. Dale thought that perhaps the Tidy function in Sigil was automatically removing the line. I did try to insert again after unchecking Tidy, but it still did the same thing.
The freed epub works fine in Reader Library before I bring it up in Sigil. Once I open it in Sigil, the ASCII characters appear. If I don't Save the file in anyway, the characters are gone but once I've saved the epub in Sigil, the ASCII characters remain. I really think Dale has it right but I don't know what to do other than to global replaces as Dale suggested or find another epub editor and see if that makes a difference.