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Originally Posted by BoyBlue
Yes, that's a very old post, indeed.
But the rather simple problem it raises has still not been solved.
When i raised the issue recently (may 2025), Calibre's developer, seemingly quite annoyed, replied that this was a very old issue that has been discussed at length and that I should simply google the subject.
Very well. But why then is Calibre still replacing French accented characters in folder and file names, while correctly storing the author and title data with their proper accented spelling in the opf metadata file ?
The conversion of accented characters to their English equivalent does not happen by magic. Somewhere in Calibre's code, a function processes those names and outputs modified unaccented names. That's not right !
So, why not simply put an end to that stripping/converting ? Because Calibre's search and classify functions would get more complicated? Because the representation of accented characters is not the same across all OS ?
Come on...
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You don't understand how calibre works. The library is under the hood and should be left alone. How it's setup is of no concern. All the filenames could be random numbers and it still would not matter. So just ignore the library. You are not to touch the library. You are to leave it alone.
When you do a search, it searches for the data you see in the GUI. The GUI will have your special characters as long as you made sure of it. When you do a save to disk, you can get a filename that contains these special characters as long as the OS you are using supports them. When you send to your Kobo you can have the metadata embedded so it will have your special characters so you can see them on your Kobo as part of the title and/or author name(s).
So what calibre does with the filename for the library is of no consequence and you just let it be.