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Phssthpok · 10-21-2015, 09:13 AM

I have just seen a situation where the file names in a book were listed correctly in the OPF file, but marked as not referenced (they appeared in the "miscellaneous" section of the file browser with a warning marker). I noticed that the names included a curly apostrophe character (’). I fixed the problem by renaming the files to remove the apostrophe and then manually editing the OPF file to match, and as soon as I saved the OPF file, all the files moved to the "text" section of the file browser and everything was fine.

I thought it might be an encoding issue (the OPF is a UTF-8 file, but I don't know what encoding would be used for the names in the zipfile itself); however, adding a file to the book called x’y.html worked properly.

Can anyone suggest a reason why what I saw might have happened?

10-21-2015, 09:13 AM	#1
Phssthpok Age improves with wine. Posts: 579 Karma: 95229 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Libra II	Strange behaviour with "not referenced" files I have just seen a situation where the file names in a book were listed correctly in the OPF file, but marked as not referenced (they appeared in the "miscellaneous" section of the file browser with a warning marker). I noticed that the names included a curly apostrophe character (’). I fixed the problem by renaming the files to remove the apostrophe and then manually editing the OPF file to match, and as soon as I saved the OPF file, all the files moved to the "text" section of the file browser and everything was fine. I thought it might be an encoding issue (the OPF is a UTF-8 file, but I don't know what encoding would be used for the names in the zipfile itself); however, adding a file to the book called x’y.html worked properly. Can anyone suggest a reason why what I saw might have happened?