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Lukusaukko · 09-14-2026, 11:11 AM

Discovered a few new and exciting bugs, but it will take a bit of time to fix and test. Maybe towards the end of the week.

Books authored with HTML named character references (—,  , … ) were not actually processed and could lose text (ampersands) in the worst case. This requires a book authored with HTML named entities such as — or  . Files using only real Unicode characters, numeric references, or XML's five predefined entities (&, <, >, ', " ) are unaffected. Losing ampersands additionally requires an undefined entity, which in EPUB 3 is an epubcheck error (operations on valid EPUB3 files should be safe). Relatively rare, but possible.
If a whole book operation fails in the middle, reverting completely to previous state might not work. Shouldn't be an issue if the operation fully completes.
With Use unicode characters instead of entities unticked, punctuation inside `style`, `script`, `pre`, `code`, `kbd`, `samp` and `var` was rewritten as numeric references, not left as is as would've been the intent. Rare-ish.

These are something that occur in relatively rare circumstances, but still worth fixing. Once these potentially destructive bugs are squashed, I will probably put this up into the index so it can be installed via the plugin manager interface.

09-14-2026, 11:11 AM	#24
Lukusaukko Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 392326 Join Date: Feb 2023 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Discovered a few new and exciting bugs, but it will take a bit of time to fix and test. Maybe towards the end of the week. Books authored with HTML named character references (—,  , … ) were not actually processed and could lose text (ampersands) in the worst case. This requires a book authored with HTML named entities such as — or  . Files using only real Unicode characters, numeric references, or XML's five predefined entities (&, <, >, ', " ) are unaffected. Losing ampersands additionally requires an undefined entity, which in EPUB 3 is an epubcheck error (operations on valid EPUB3 files should be safe). Relatively rare, but possible. If a whole book operation fails in the middle, reverting completely to previous state might not work. Shouldn't be an issue if the operation fully completes. With Use unicode characters instead of entities unticked, punctuation inside `style`, `script`, `pre`, `code`, `kbd`, `samp` and `var` was rewritten as numeric references, not left as is as would've been the intent. Rare-ish. These are something that occur in relatively rare circumstances, but still worth fixing. Once these potentially destructive bugs are squashed, I will probably put this up into the index so it can be installed via the plugin manager interface.