French titles lose accents when saved

sinusLog · 09-28-2011, 04:17 PM

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 ?

user_none · 09-28-2011, 07:55 PM

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.

kovidgoyal · 09-28-2011, 08:11 PM

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.

sinusLog · 09-29-2011, 12:28 AM

Thanks for both replies, and thanks for your dedication, kovidgoyal.
The method you indicated works, of course.

09-28-2011, 04:17 PM	#1
sinusLog Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Nook Touch	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 ?

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09-28-2011, 07:55 PM	#2
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,488 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	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.

09-28-2011, 08:11 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,871 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	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.

09-29-2011, 12:28 AM	#4
sinusLog Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Nook Touch	Thanks for both replies, and thanks for your dedication, kovidgoyal. The method you indicated works, of course.

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