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Old 03-13-2014, 06:52 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by rkillings View Post
Sorry, I was using the wrong terminology. Preferences->Saving books to disk->Convert non-English characters to English equivalents is and has been unchecked.
I meant to say, Saving books to the calibre library itself (which is itself a save-to-disk operation, no?;-).
I'm keeping synced copies of my library on several different cloud storage services, now that those companies are offering so much free space. It's (relatively) easy to access my full library from an iPad or other tablet and download any title, but if the accented characters have been stripped from the filenames by calibre, the ebook reader apps I've tried won't show them in the author and title fields, even though I've put them in the calibre metadata entries.
Now, I grant that none of the reader apps, iBooks in particular, is as feature-rich as I'd like. Few of them let me do any ex-post editing of the author or title field. It may just be too early in the development of this technology… by others, not by the calibre developers!
Thanks for the good work, Kovid.
NO

You may NOT change the way calibre stores a library.
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....tory-structure

Calibre MUST work across OS platforms so it uses characters and paths that work on all of them.
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