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kovidgoyal · 05-08-2014, 10:23 PM

Works for me. Is your system not utf-8? In any case, just use the escaped form for encoded chars, to be absolutely safe. So academie would become

u'Acad\xe9mie'

or if you want to use unicode code points (whicha re easier to look up)

u'Acad\u00e9mie'

05-08-2014, 10:23 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,400 Karma: 27756918 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Works for me. Is your system not utf-8? In any case, just use the escaped form for encoded chars, to be absolutely safe. So academie would become u'Acad\xe9mie' or if you want to use unicode code points (whicha re easier to look up) u'Acad\u00e9mie'