From 940e655bef21f5c542c38520827b4648c9fdbf9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:22:10 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Change default for asciiizing filenames on save to disk to false By now most platforms support unicode filenames. --- src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py b/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py index 7b370b67f8..5221d21d63 100644 --- a/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py +++ b/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py @@ -106,12 +106,10 @@ def config(defaults=None): 'directory with filenames containing title and author. ' 'Available controls are: {%(controls)s}')%dict( templ=DEFAULT_SEND_TEMPLATE, controls=', '.join(FORMAT_ARGS))) - x('asciiize', default=True, - help=_('Normally, calibre will convert all non English characters into English equivalents ' - 'for the file names. ' - 'WARNING: If you turn this off, you may experience errors when ' - 'saving, depending on how well the filesystem you are saving ' - 'to supports unicode.')) + x('asciiize', default=False, + help=_('Have calibre convert all non English characters into English equivalents ' + 'for the file names. This is useful if saving to a legacy filesystem ' + 'without full support for Unicode filenames.')) x('timefmt', default='%b, %Y', help=_('The format in which to display dates. %(day)s - day,' ' %(month)s - month, %(mn)s - month number, %(year)s - year. Default is: %(default)s'