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Old 11-13-2022, 01:30 PM   #1
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Losing special characters when sending books via email

My apologies in advance if this topic has already been discussed.

The problem:

As a Spanish speaker, a significant number of my books have special characters in their titles such as: ¿? and vowels with accents such as á, é, í, ó, ú.

When I add books with these special characters in their titles to my Calibre's library, they appear correctly in the list, but as soon as I email them to my Kindle, they lose all of them.

As I understand it, the reason this happens is that Calibre replaces the characters in the files saved in the library folder, so in order to preserve the characters, I have to edit the files externally and send them directly through my personal email. Characters are kept correctly by Amazon after the files are converted to whatever their native format is.

Suggestion:

Would it be possible for Calibre to save the files without altering the special characters, so that people can send their books internally?

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