non-ascii filename txt files sent to device get converted to ascii

[Neil Gordon]

I unchecked the preference to convert non-ascii filenames to ascii, and:
1) It is still converted to ascii in the library file (I don't care about this)
2) It is still converted to ascii when sent to the device (in this case a kindle 3 - and I REALLY CARE ABOUT THIS)
I understand maybe your library will not deal with UTF-8 filenames, and to be honest it doesn't bother me. BUT please!! please put the proper filename back when sendinf to devices which support it!

With mobi files etc the meta data exists, so the name shows correctly from the kindle interface. But .txt files do not seem to do this! So I get these bullcr*p converted filenames showing on the kindle menu and can't tell what file is what!

This is a serious issue which makes your software pretty much unusable in this situation.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

I have no interest in dealing with all the issues that creating non ascii
filenames on devices will create.

 status wontfix

[Neil Gordon (norgus)]

Thank you for considering the issue anyway.
I would appreciate it if you would look at the issue some time in the future. I know for a fact UTF-8 filenames work perfectly well on at least the kindle 3.
It makes the software very inpractical for users of non English languages to use if the document titles end up unreadable on their devices.