09-28-2011, 04:17 PM | #1 |
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French titles lose accents when saved
Hi,
Although the title shows like this in calibre: ALLAIS, Alphonse - Le mariage manqué ... ... when I save it to disk, I get: ALLAIS, Alphonse - Le mariage manque I've tested it with txt, htm and pdf (converting to epub). The accent is also stripped in the calibre's folder. The files convert correctly. In Prefs > Adding Books, the option 'Read metadata from file contents rather than file name' is unchecked. I am using 0.8.20 Any help ? |
09-28-2011, 07:55 PM | #2 |
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Calibre does not allow for paths and filenames to include non-ascii characters. This is because calibre runs on a number of different platforms that use a number of different file systems. Not all platforms and filesystems support unicode characters. It's easier to simply confine the path and filenames to a set of characters that are known to work across all systems calibre can run on.
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09-28-2011, 08:11 PM | #3 |
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When using save to disk you can ask calibre to reserve non ascii characters via Preferences->saving to disk. Note this *only* applies to the save to disk action.
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09-29-2011, 12:28 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for both replies, and thanks for your dedication, kovidgoyal.
The method you indicated works, of course. |
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