[DaltonST]

Kovid,

There was no difference in output on the display screen. The gui still shows the same unicode literal u'N\xe3o-fic\xe7\xe3o' after changing to using mi.set(xxx instead of mi.set_user_metadata(xxx. Both update the custom column perfectly. Identical output. Again, my question is not about how to get it updated in general, but rather how to get it updated so the human being sitting at the Calibre gui does not see "u'N\xe3o-fic\xe7\xe3o', but instead sees the "real" word of Não-ficção. The gui shows the unicode string, not the human-readable string. Is there special syntax to make Calibre show the value in human readable form instead of the original unicode string?

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