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kovidgoyal · 09-22-2010, 11:51 PM

Not really. Support for non ascii characters in file systems is really atrocious. There's no way to make an application like calibre that supports a multitude of operating systems, devices, etc that also writes file names with non ascii chars.

09-22-2010, 11:51 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not really. Support for non ascii characters in file systems is really atrocious. There's no way to make an application like calibre that supports a multitude of operating systems, devices, etc that also writes file names with non ascii chars.