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FacetiousKnave · 11-13-2022, 07:36 PM

Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately it did not work. I copied your settings, but Calibre stills replace the alternative question mark with an underscore symbol.

Just to clarify, I am able to manually include the special characters on the file name because I am using a mac. I forgot that you cannot do the same on Windows.

Anyway, I hope Amazon eventually decide to bring back things as they were before. Their unpractical decision to generate the title from the file name is making everything incredibly difficult.

EDIT: Sorry, you were right, I missed the "save to disk" step. In fact, I just tried with a title full of vowels with accents and it all work! Many thanks.

EDIT 2: Just out of curiosity, if Calibre is able to do that when you "save to disk", why cant it just save the files on the library with the special characters included?

11-13-2022, 07:36 PM	#5
FacetiousKnave Unconscionable Posts: 89 Karma: 25000 Join Date: Sep 2022 Location: Helsinki Device: Kindle	Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately it did not work. I copied your settings, but Calibre stills replace the alternative question mark with an underscore symbol. Just to clarify, I am able to manually include the special characters on the file name because I am using a mac. I forgot that you cannot do the same on Windows. Anyway, I hope Amazon eventually decide to bring back things as they were before. Their unpractical decision to generate the title from the file name is making everything incredibly difficult. EDIT: Sorry, you were right, I missed the "save to disk" step. In fact, I just tried with a title full of vowels with accents and it all work! Many thanks. EDIT 2: Just out of curiosity, if Calibre is able to do that when you "save to disk", why cant it just save the files on the library with the special characters included? Last edited by FacetiousKnave; 11-13-2022 at 07:41 PM.