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Hopkins · 01-17-2018, 12:58 PM

Right, this is a Windows 10 US Version. It supports non-ASCII names in the file manager. I guess I'm assuming it is a UTF-8 based system.

Some users of the Chinese Conversion plugin in the Calibre editor have:

opened their non-ASCII named EPUB files via the "Open book" menu
made changes to the text
attemped to save (or save a copy) of the book using the same non-ASCII title

They are confused when they get an error since the OS supports non-ASCII file names and the editor successfully opened the non-ASCII named file. I'm currently recommending they do a "Save a copy" using a temporary ASCII name and then rename it back to the desired name. It's a bit of a kludge.

01-17-2018, 12:58 PM	#3
Hopkins Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Minnesota USA Device: Amazon Paperwhite 3G	Right, this is a Windows 10 US Version. It supports non-ASCII names in the file manager. I guess I'm assuming it is a UTF-8 based system. Some users of the Chinese Conversion plugin in the Calibre editor have: opened their non-ASCII named EPUB files via the "Open book" menu made changes to the text attemped to save (or save a copy) of the book using the same non-ASCII title They are confused when they get an error since the OS supports non-ASCII file names and the editor successfully opened the non-ASCII named file. I'm currently recommending they do a "Save a copy" using a temporary ASCII name and then rename it back to the desired name. It's a bit of a kludge.