Export isn't readable anymore

TheMadGuy · 07-02-2025, 08:01 AM

Parallel to Calibre, I list all my books in LibreOffice. And since I started with Calibre (kind of years ago) there never was a problem to get the CSV with the same text as is entered in Calibre.

I didn't do any updated (working with 8.5.0 on Win11), and my last export was something like a week ago.

So today I wanted to export the newly entered data, and now all those german letters (the a, o, u with two dots above - ä, ö, ü) aren't written anymore but replaced by ��

So this way I definitely can't use the export anymore without manually correcting all those ��.

What happened? And how can I change this back to the former way of export?

kovidgoyal · 07-02-2025, 12:14 PM

Nothing happened. The export remains the same as it always was. Make sure whatever software you are importing it into is decoding it using the UTF-8 encoding.

TheMadGuy · 07-02-2025, 01:12 PM

But I didn't change anything, neither in Calibre nor in LibreOffice? And as there was no Update, what thit change that setting? Not to mention that I checked every possible setting in LibreOffice but there is nothing like UTF-8 to find

PeterT · 07-02-2025, 01:28 PM

Have you tried different fonts in Libre Office?

Bradles · 07-02-2025, 10:07 PM

you might also try opening the CSV in Notepad (or equivalent UTF-8 supported text editor) to check if the special characters are there. this will eliminate or confirm calibre export as the issue.

TheMadGuy · 07-03-2025, 06:25 AM

Okay, in Notepad is everything there. But in LibreOffice not. So it seems that I need to go to their support - altough there was neither an update nor I changed anything

07-02-2025, 08:01 AM	#1
TheMadGuy Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Trekstor 3.0	Export isn't readable anymore Parallel to Calibre, I list all my books in LibreOffice. And since I started with Calibre (kind of years ago) there never was a problem to get the CSV with the same text as is entered in Calibre. I didn't do any updated (working with 8.5.0 on Win11), and my last export was something like a week ago. So today I wanted to export the newly entered data, and now all those german letters (the a, o, u with two dots above - ä, ö, ü) aren't written anymore but replaced by �� So this way I definitely can't use the export anymore without manually correcting all those ��. What happened? And how can I change this back to the former way of export?

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07-02-2025, 12:14 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,681 Karma: 28549304 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Nothing happened. The export remains the same as it always was. Make sure whatever software you are importing it into is decoding it using the UTF-8 encoding.

07-02-2025, 01:12 PM	#3
TheMadGuy Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Trekstor 3.0	But I didn't change anything, neither in Calibre nor in LibreOffice? And as there was no Update, what thit change that setting? Not to mention that I checked every possible setting in LibreOffice but there is nothing like UTF-8 to find

07-02-2025, 01:28 PM	#4
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,744 Karma: 80104526 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Have you tried different fonts in Libre Office?

07-02-2025, 10:07 PM	#5
Bradles Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 35586 Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: Perth, Western Australia Device: Apple Books & Kobo Libra H20	you might also try opening the CSV in Notepad (or equivalent UTF-8 supported text editor) to check if the special characters are there. this will eliminate or confirm calibre export as the issue.

07-03-2025, 06:25 AM	#6
TheMadGuy Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Trekstor 3.0	Okay, in Notepad is everything there. But in LibreOffice not. So it seems that I need to go to their support - altough there was neither an update nor I changed anything

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