[Orville Q. Song]

Hello.

I'm a Calibre user from China using Chinese and Japanese, and I'm not sure where to submit Feature request so I end up here.

I saw a lots thread talking about store non-acsii filenames in library with Unicode, but the answer is always no. Still I want to try again cause this is actually a big deal for CJK user's experience (especially for those who use calibre-web like me), or we won't ask this feature for years.

The latest version of calibre-web(a web interface for calibre metadata.db) store books with Unicode by default, because unlike "Saving to disk" in Calibre, it can only serve the file as it in the library. I could open the metadata.db managed by Calibre-web, but if I did something like rename the book, or convert the book, everything will be mess-up. I have about 100 epub books in my server, and if I want to convert them to azw3 without a mess, I have to manually convert each book once a time thorough the Calibre-web.

I do understand this was designed to prevent bugs filenames when sent to devices are ascii-ized, but I also believe if someone use languages other than English, it's basically impossible for him to have an ascii only device. And also, give the user choice is always not a bad idea, right?

So would you please add unicode support to library and e-book convert in Calibre as an option (or a plugin?) to help us life get easier?

Thank you.