calibre

Feature Request: option to transliterate metadata when sending to device

Bug #1249562 reported by Omar Z
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calibre
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Charles Haley

Bug Description

Feature Request:
Calibre renames files according to a transliteration of metadata (author, title, etc) that is entered in Non-Latin Characters. My device (Kobo Aura) does not render Arabic characters well; so I can't tell Arabic books apart. I want to have an option in 'send to device' to send a Latin transliteration of metadata, particularly title, author, and series fields.
I'm using Calibre 1.9

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Re: calibre bug 1249562

Changing the component for this bug.

 assignee cbhaley
 status triaged

Changed in calibre:
assignee: nobody → Charles Haley (cbhaley)
status: New → Triaged
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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

@Charles: Could you add a transliterate template function then the OP
could use metadata pluugboards to do what he wants. See
utils/filenames.py for an example of how to call the transliterate
function.

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Omar Z (3omarz) wrote :

@kovid: Thank you. That is exactly what I intended to do, a metadata plugboard. But unfortunately I couldn't find the transliteration function.

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Charles Haley (cbhaley) wrote :

Code for transliterate template function submitted.

Changed in calibre:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Fixed in master

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

 status fixreleased

Changed in calibre:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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