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DOCX input known characters metadata

Bug #1321343 reported by Tamsusis
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Bug Description

Calibre version 1.37
When adding DOCX file as ebook, if metadata commnet field contains new line character it is inputed as _x000d_ in calibre book matadata. See example

Tags: docx metadata
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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Re: calibre bug 1321343

The _x000d_ are rpesent in that docx file, which you can verify by
unzipping it and looking at docprops/core.xml

 status invalid

Changed in calibre:
status: New → Invalid
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Tamsusis (tamsusis) wrote :

OK that is clear. However Word does not show those invalid characters. It is just plain line breaks in comments field.
See screen shot attached.
It would be wise for Calibre to strip such obvious garbage in metadata.

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Charles Haley (cbhaley) wrote :

The characters aren't garbage. On Windows, line endings are 0x0d 0x0a, or CR LF.

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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: Invalid → Fix Released
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Tamsusis (tamsusis) wrote :

Thank you, that's great

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