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mwgabby-li · 08-20-2020, 11:08 PM

Dr. Goyal, I have a suggestion for a change to the default settings in Calibre 5.

I think it might be safe at this time to change the default book export to support Unicode. (Preferences - Saving books to disk - Convert non-English characters to English equivalents)

I think that disabling this by default made sense earlier in Calibre's lifespan, but at this point pretty much everything supports it.

This came up because I have books with Japanese titles, and right now the default settings convert the titles to ASCII in a way that is not very useful. They basically end up looking garbled to someone who reads Japanese. I think it would make Calibre easier to use if the export used Unicode by default.

08-20-2020, 11:08 PM	#257
mwgabby-li Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2020 Device: reMarkable v1	Calibre 5 Suggestion Dr. Goyal, I have a suggestion for a change to the default settings in Calibre 5. I think it might be safe at this time to change the default book export to support Unicode. (Preferences - Saving books to disk - Convert non-English characters to English equivalents) I think that disabling this by default made sense earlier in Calibre's lifespan, but at this point pretty much everything supports it. This came up because I have books with Japanese titles, and right now the default settings convert the titles to ASCII in a way that is not very useful. They basically end up looking garbled to someone who reads Japanese. I think it would make Calibre easier to use if the export used Unicode by default.