[riverteeth]

Hi everyone. I have a large number of books in Chinese. I noticed that Calibre uses the romanization of Chinese characters when constructing its file structure on disk. I'm wondering if this behavior can be changed so that the original title/author (in Chinese characters) is preserved in the file/folder structure.

This is desirable because I sometimes want to share my books with classmates who don't use Calibre. If you didn't use Calibre and you regularly use Chinese and other Asian languages on your computer, you most likely would want the character version in the file name to aid in search, and just to make the file recognizable without opening it. One more reason is that Calibre uses the most common pronunciation for characters, and it often (understandably) gets the wrong romanization for some Chinese surnames and lots of Japanese names.

I see an checkbox for "convert non-English characters to English Equivalents" in the "saving books to disk" section of the preferences. However, having unchecked this box and then importing some new books / editing some old ones, I see that the file/folder names are continuing to be named in the old fashion. Am I misunderstanding the function of this checkbox, or is there some other way to accomplish my goal?

Thanks!