Comment 0 for bug 1317883

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Robert BÅ‚aut (1-robert) wrote :

Mac OS X uses a sort of 'decomposed UTF-8' for storing filenames. calibre think i'ts 'simple UTF-8'.

Details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9757843/unicode-encoding-for-filesystem-in-mac-os-x-not-correct-in-python

So ebook-edit checking is completely useless if one of filenames has unicode characters. Check attached screenshots and compare Windows and Mac OS X calibre output.

I've also attached test case (epub file) demonstrating a problem.