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TheRealJohnAdams · 05-20-2020, 11:51 AM

Hi all,

A few people have commented on the difficulty of getting multi-word last names to sort correctly on Kobo. One person said that he had had success using non-breaking spaces, and I believe @davidfor has suggested that solution on several occasions. My problem is that I can't figure out how to do that.

If I enter a non-breaking space directly into the Author field, calibre treats it as a regular space. If I use U+000A0 or \xA0, Calibre (and Kobo) treat those as string literals rather than interpreting them as the non-breaking space character.

If I use  , Kobo does not process the space or anything after it. So, "St. John of the Cross," which should sort as "St. John_of_the_Cross," becomes "St. John of the Cross" in Calibre, which Kobo displays as "St."

I would appreciate any advice.

05-20-2020, 11:51 AM	#1
TheRealJohnAdams Enthusiast Posts: 42 Karma: 57668 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Forma, Onyx Page	How do I put a non-breaking space in an author's name? Hi all, A few people have commented on the difficulty of getting multi-word last names to sort correctly on Kobo. One person said that he had had success using non-breaking spaces, and I believe @davidfor has suggested that solution on several occasions. My problem is that I can't figure out how to do that. If I enter a non-breaking space directly into the Author field, calibre treats it as a regular space. If I use U+000A0 or \xA0, Calibre (and Kobo) treat those as string literals rather than interpreting them as the non-breaking space character. If I use  , Kobo does not process the space or anything after it. So, "St. John of the Cross," which should sort as "St. John_of_the_Cross," becomes "St. John of the Cross" in Calibre, which Kobo displays as "St." I would appreciate any advice.