Merge from trunk

Changelog.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,106 @@
 #  new recipes:
 #    - title: 
 
+- version: 0.7.45
+  date: 2011-02-11
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Add plugin to download series information from the Kent District Library"
+
+    - title: "Kindle driver: When uploading MOBI files to the device, upload page number information as well (used by the not yet released Kindle 3.1 firmware)"
+
+    - title: "When automatically sending news to device, send to main memory preferentially, if it has enough space."
+      tickets: [8877]
+
+    - title: "Allow customization of which metadata fields are searched by default (click the preferences icon next to the search box)"
+
+    - title: "New format TXTZ: which is a zip file containing the TXT file and associated images + metadata. calibre can convert to and from this format and read/write metadata to it."
+
+    - title: "New option to control how automerge handles duplicate formats when adding books to your calibre library. See Preferences->Adding books"
+
+    - title: "Driver for Nokia X6, Nexus S, WiBook, MyTouch 4G and Huawei Ideos S7"
+
+    - title: "Nicer interface for editing tweaks"
+
+    - title: "Add tweak to remove yellow lines from edges of book list"
+
+    - title: "Completion: Restore adding of comma at end after completion for tags type fields. Add a tweak to control if an & is added after completion for author type fields"
+
+    - title: "Turn search as you type off by default for searching the book list. You can turn it on by clicking the preferences button next to the search bar."
+
+    - title: "TXT Input: Add option to remove indents and fix bug where spaces were not retained properly."
+  
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Fix a regression in 0.7.44 that could cause setting authors to fail in windows when the author name is very long"
+      tickets: [8797]
+
+    - title: "E-book viewer: Fix bug that could cause the bottom of chapters to get cut-off if the topmost element had a large top margin."
+      tickets: [8791]
+
+    - title: "Fix regression that caused a spurious error message after moving a library. Also ensure that the entries in the Copy to Library menu are updated after a library is moved/renamed/deleted."
+      tickets: [8905]
+
+    - title: "PML Input: New handling of t and T tags. T's that do not start the line are ignored. t's that start and end the line use a margin for the text block"
+
+    - title: "News download: Remove all invalid ASCII control characters from article descriptions as they cause XML parsing to fail"
+
+    - title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug that was discarding non breaking spaces at the start of a paragraph when they were followed immediately by a tag."
+      tickets: [4887]
+
+    - title: "LIT Input: Fix a regression in handling LIT files that contain txt rather than html data"
+      tickets: [8904]
+
+    - title: "Fix bug in search box in the plugins dialog"
+      tickets: [8882]
+
+    - title: "Fix renaming of categories via the Tag Browser"
+      tickets: [8807]
+
+    - title: "Content server: Do not send mobile version to iPad"
+      tickets: [8820]
+
+    - title: "Fix undefined publication date appearing in book jacket as 101"
+      tickets: [8799]
+
+    - title: "Heuristics: Fix issue with invalid markup from italicize patterns."
+
+    - title: "TXT Input: De-hyphenate textile and markdown inpu as well. Fix inline toc not showing all items."
+
+    - title: "RTF Input: More encoding token splitting fixes."
+
+    - title: "Fix regression that broke the convenience Email to xxx entry in the connect share menu."
+      tickets: [8775]
+
+    - title: "Fix editing of series type custom columns in the book list."
+      tickets: [8765]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - El periodico de Aragon
+    - B92
+    - French Belgian news sources
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: "ABC.es"
+      author: "Ricardo Jurado"
+
+    - title: "Korespondent and Kopalnia Wiedzy"
+      author: "Attis"
+
+    - title: "Radio Prague"
+      author: "Francois Pellicaan"
+
+    - title: "Europa Press"
+      author: "Luis Hernandez"
+
+    - title: "Interoperability Happens and njuz.net"
+      author: "Darko Miletic"
+
+    - title: "Weblogs SL"
+      author: "desUBIKado"
+
+    - title: "Kompas and Jakarta Post"
+      author: "Adrian Gunawan"
+
 - version: 0.7.44
   date: 2011-02-04
 

resources/recipes/abc_es.recipe

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__author__    = 'Ricardo Jurado'
+__copyright__ = 'Ricardo Jurado'
+__version__     = 'v0.4'
+__date__        = '11 February 2011'
+
+'''
+http://www.abc.es/
+'''
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class AdvancedUserRecipe1296604369(BasicNewsRecipe):
+
+    title          = u'ABC.es'
+    masthead_url   = 'http://www.abc.es/img/logo-abc.gif'
+    cover_url      = 'http://www.abc.es/img/logo-abc.gif'
+    publisher      = u'Grupo VOCENTO'
+
+    __author__            = 'Ricardo Jurado'
+    description           = 'Noticias de Spain y el mundo'
+    category              = 'News,Spain,National,International,Economy'
+    oldest_article = 2
+    max_articles_per_feed = 10
+
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    encoding = 'ISO-8859-1'
+    remove_javascript = True
+    language = 'es'
+
+    extra_css             = """
+                               p{text-align: justify; font-size: 100%}
+                               body{ text-align: left; font-size:100% }
+                               h3{font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; text-align: justify; }
+                               h2{font-family: sans-serif; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align: justify; }
+                               h1{font-family: sans-serif; font-size:150%; font-weight:bold; text-align: justify; }
+                                 """
+
+    keep_only_tags = [
+#                 dict(name='h2', attrs={'class':['logos']}),
+                 dict(name='h3', attrs={'class':['overhead']}),
+                 dict(name='h1', attrs={'class':'headline'}),
+                 dict(name='h3', attrs={'class':['subhead']}),
+                 dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'datosi'}),
+                 dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'photo-alt1'}),
+                 dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'text'})
+                 ]
+
+#    remove_tags_before = dict(name='div' , attrs={'id':['cabecera2']})
+
+    feeds          = [
+                     (u'PORTADA', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abcPortada.xml')
+                    ,(u'ULTIMAS', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_ultima.xml')
+                    ,(u'NACIONAL', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_EspanaEspana.xml')
+                    ,(u'INTERNACIONAL', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Internacional.xml')
+                    ,(u'OPINION', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_opinioncompleto.xml')
+                    ,(u'BLOGS ABC', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/blogs-abc.xml')
+                    ,(u'ECONOMIA', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Economia.xml')
+                    ,(u'CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Ciencia_Tecnologia.xml')
+                    ,(u'CULTURA', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Cultura.xml')
+                    ,(u'LIBROS', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Libros.xml')
+                    ,(u'MEDIOS Y REDES', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/ABC_Medios_Redes.xml')
+                    ,(u'EVASION', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_evasion.xml')
+                    ,(u'ESPECTACULOS', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Espectaculos.xml')
+                    ,(u'GENTE', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Gente.xml')
+                    ,(u'DEPORTES', u'http://www.abc.es/rss/feeds/abc_Deportes.xml')
+                     ]

resources/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe

@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
                             'mediaOverlay slideshow',
                             'headlinesOnly multiline flush',
                             'wideThumb',
+                            'video', #added 02-11-2011
+                            'videoHeader',#added 02-11-2011
+                            'articleInlineVideoHolder', #added 02-11-2011
+                            'assetCompanionAd',
                             re.compile('^subNavigation'),
                             re.compile('^leaderboard'),
                             re.compile('^module'),
@@ -664,7 +668,7 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
             try:
                 #remove "Related content" bar
-                runAroundsFound = soup.findAll('div',{'class':['articleInline runaroundLeft','articleInline doubleRule runaroundLeft','articleInline runaroundLeft firstArticleInline']})
+                runAroundsFound = soup.findAll('div',{'class':['articleInline runaroundLeft','articleInline doubleRule runaroundLeft','articleInline runaroundLeft firstArticleInline','articleInline runaroundLeft  ']})
                 if runAroundsFound:
                     for runAround in runAroundsFound:
                         #find all section headers
@@ -672,6 +676,12 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
                         if hlines:
                             for hline in hlines:
                                 hline.extract()
+                                
+                        #find all section headers
+                        hlines = runAround.findAll('h6')
+                        if hlines:
+                            for hline in hlines:
+                                hline.extract()
             except:
                 self.log("Error removing related content bar")
 

src/calibre/constants.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-__version__   = '0.7.44'
+__version__   = '0.7.45'
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 
 import re

src/calibre/customize/builtins.py

@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ from calibre.devices.kobo.driver import KOBO
 from calibre.devices.bambook.driver import BAMBOOK
 
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.fetch import GoogleBooks, ISBNDB, Amazon, \
-    LibraryThing
+    KentDistrictLibrary
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.douban import DoubanBooks
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.nicebooks import NiceBooks, NiceBooksCovers
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.covers import OpenLibraryCovers, \
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ from calibre.ebooks.epub.fix.unmanifested import Unmanifested
 from calibre.ebooks.epub.fix.epubcheck import Epubcheck
 
 plugins = [HTML2ZIP, PML2PMLZ, ArchiveExtract, GoogleBooks, ISBNDB, Amazon,
-        LibraryThing, DoubanBooks, NiceBooks, CSV_XML, EPUB_MOBI, BIBTEX, Unmanifested,
+        KentDistrictLibrary, DoubanBooks, NiceBooks, CSV_XML, EPUB_MOBI, BIBTEX, Unmanifested,
         Epubcheck, OpenLibraryCovers, LibraryThingCovers, DoubanCovers,
         NiceBooksCovers]
 plugins += [

src/calibre/devices/nokia/driver.py

@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ class E52(USBMS):
     supported_platforms = ['windows', 'linux', 'osx']
 
     VENDOR_ID = [0x421]
-    PRODUCT_ID = [0x1CD]
+    PRODUCT_ID = [0x1CD, 0x273]
     BCD = [0x100]
 
 
-    FORMATS = ['mobi', 'prc']
+    FORMATS = ['epub', 'fb2', 'mobi', 'prc', 'txt']
 
     EBOOK_DIR_MAIN = 'eBooks'
     SUPPORTS_SUB_DIRS = True

src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fetch.py

@@ -247,30 +247,24 @@ class Amazon(MetadataSource): # {{{
 
     # }}}
 
-class LibraryThing(MetadataSource): # {{{
+class KentDistrictLibrary(MetadataSource): # {{{
 
-    name = 'LibraryThing'
+    name = 'Kent District Library'
     metadata_type = 'social'
-    description = _('Downloads series/covers/rating information from librarything.com')
+    description = _('Downloads series information from ww2.kdl.org')
 
     def fetch(self):
-        if not self.isbn or not self.site_customization:
+        if not self.title or not self.book_author:
             return
-        from calibre.ebooks.metadata.library_thing import get_social_metadata
-        un, _, pw = self.site_customization.partition(':')
+        from calibre.ebooks.metadata.kdl import get_series
         try:
-            self.results = get_social_metadata(self.title, self.book_author,
-                    self.publisher, self.isbn, username=un, password=pw)
+            self.results = get_series(self.title, self.book_author)
         except Exception, e:
+            import traceback
+            traceback.print_exc()
             self.exception = e
             self.tb = traceback.format_exc()
 
-    @property
-    def string_customization_help(self):
-        ans = _('To use librarything.com you must sign up for a %sfree account%s '
-                'and enter your username and password separated by a : below.')
-        return '<p>'+ans%('<a href="http://www.librarything.com">', '</a>')
-
     # }}}
 
 

src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/kdl.py

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim:fileencoding=UTF-8:ts=4:sw=4:sta:et:sts=4:ai
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2011, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+
+import re, urllib, urlparse
+
+from calibre.ebooks.metadata.book.base import Metadata
+from calibre import browser
+from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+from calibre.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
+
+URL = \
+"http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/WhatsNext.asp?AuthorLastName={0}&AuthorFirstName=&SeriesName=&BookTitle={1}&CategoryID=0&cmdSearch=Search&Search=1&grouping="
+
+_ignore_starts = u'\'"'+u''.join(unichr(x) for x in range(0x2018, 0x201e)+[0x2032, 0x2033])
+
+def get_series(title, authors):
+    mi = Metadata(title, authors)
+    if title and title[0] in _ignore_starts:
+        title = title[1:]
+    title = re.sub(r'^(A|The|An)\s+', '', title).strip()
+    if not title:
+        return mi
+    if isinstance(title, unicode):
+        title = title.encode('utf-8')
+
+    title = urllib.quote_plus(title)
+
+    author = authors[0].strip()
+    if not author:
+        return mi
+    if ',' in author:
+        author = author.split(',')[0]
+    else:
+        author = author.split()[-1]
+
+    url = URL.format(author, title)
+    br = browser()
+    raw = br.open(url).read()
+    if 'see the full results' not in raw:
+        return mi
+    raw = xml_to_unicode(raw)[0]
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(raw)
+    searcharea = soup.find('div', attrs={'class':'searcharea'})
+    if searcharea is None:
+        return mi
+    ss = searcharea.find('div', attrs={'class':'seriessearch'})
+    if ss is None:
+        return mi
+    a = ss.find('a', href=True)
+    if a is None:
+        return mi
+    href = a['href'].partition('?')[-1]
+    data = urlparse.parse_qs(href)
+    series = data.get('SeriesName', [])
+    if not series:
+        return mi
+    series = series[0]
+    series = re.sub(r' series$', '', series).strip()
+    if series:
+        mi.series = series
+    ns = ss.nextSibling
+    if ns.contents:
+        raw = unicode(ns.contents[0])
+        raw = raw.partition('.')[0].strip()
+        try:
+            mi.series_index = int(raw)
+        except:
+            pass
+    return mi
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import sys
+    print get_series(sys.argv[-2], [sys.argv[-1]])
+

src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py

@@ -60,10 +60,8 @@ class Tweak(object): # {{{
         return ans
 
     def __cmp__(self, other):
-        if self.is_customized != getattr(other, 'is_customized', False):
-            return -1 * cmp(self.is_customized,
+        return -1 * cmp(self.is_customized,
                             getattr(other, 'is_customized', False))
-        return cmp(icu_lower(self.name), icu_lower(getattr(other, 'name', '')))
 
     @property
     def is_customized(self):

src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ __copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 import os, traceback, cStringIO, re, shutil
-from functools import partial
 
 from calibre.constants import DEBUG
 from calibre.utils.config import Config, StringConfig, tweaks

src/calibre/translations/calibre.pot

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: calibre 0.7.44\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2011-02-10 13:08+MST\n"
-"PO-Revision-Date: 2011-02-10 13:08+MST\n"
+"Project-Id-Version: calibre 0.7.45\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2011-02-11 11:38+MST\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2011-02-11 11:38+MST\n"
 "Last-Translator: Automatically generated\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/ereader.py:36
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/ereader.py:61
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fb2.py:54
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fetch.py:365
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fetch.py:359
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py:36
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py:64
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py:66
@@ -2351,7 +2351,6 @@ msgid "LibraryThing.com server error. Try again later."
 msgstr ""
 
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/covers.py:177
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fetch.py:270
 msgid "To use librarything.com you must sign up for a %sfree account%s and enter your username and password separated by a : below."
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -2408,7 +2407,7 @@ msgid "Downloads social metadata from amazon.com"
 msgstr ""
 
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fetch.py:254
-msgid "Downloads series/covers/rating information from librarything.com"
+msgid "Downloads series information from ww2.kdl.org"
 msgstr ""
 
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fictionwise.py:25
@@ -3567,8 +3566,8 @@ msgstr ""
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py:905
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/restore_library.py:101
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/metadata/bulk_download.py:186
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:268
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:308
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:273
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:313
 msgid "Failed"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -10568,28 +10567,28 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Remove selected actions from toolbar"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:112
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:113
 msgid "This tweak has it default value"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:114
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:115
 msgid "This tweak has been customized"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:231
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:236
 msgid "Add/edit tweaks for any custom plugins you have installed. Documentation for these tweaks should be available on the website from where you downloaded the plugins."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:269
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:309
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:274
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:314
 msgid "There was a syntax error in your tweak. Click the show details button for details."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:322
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:327
 msgid "Invalid tweaks"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:323
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/tweaks.py:328
 msgid "The tweaks you entered are invalid, try resetting the tweaks to default and changing them one by one until you find the invalid setting."
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -11773,7 +11772,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/caches.py:548
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/caches.py:558
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:185
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:192
 msgid "no"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -11784,7 +11783,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/caches.py:551
 #: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/caches.py:561
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:185
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:192
 msgid "yes"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -12576,101 +12575,101 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "creating custom column "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:33
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:32
 msgid "The title"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:34
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:33
 msgid "The authors"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:35
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:34
 msgid "The author sort string. To use only the first letter of the name use {author_sort[0]}"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:37
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:36
 msgid "The tags"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:38
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:37
 msgid "The series"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:39
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:38
 msgid "The series number. To get leading zeros use {series_index:0>3s} or {series_index:>3s} for leading spaces"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:42
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:41
 msgid "The rating"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:43
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:42
 msgid "The ISBN"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:44
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:43
 msgid "The publisher"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:45
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:44
 msgid "The date"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:46
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:45
 msgid "The published date"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:47
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:46
 msgid "The calibre internal id"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:57
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:56
 msgid "Options to control saving to disk"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:63
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:62
 msgid "Normally, calibre will update the metadata in the saved files from what is in the calibre library. Makes saving to disk slower."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:66
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:65
 msgid "Normally, calibre will write the metadata into a separate OPF file along with the actual e-book files."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:69
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:68
 msgid "Normally, calibre will save the cover in a separate file along with the actual e-book file(s)."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:72
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:71
 msgid "Comma separated list of formats to save for each book. By default all available formats are saved."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:75
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:74
 msgid "The template to control the filename and directory structure of the saved files. Default is \"%s\" which will save books into a per-author subdirectory with filenames containing title and author. Available controls are: {%s}"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:80
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:79
 msgid "The template to control the filename and directory structure of files sent to the device. Default is \"%s\" which will save books into a per-author directory with filenames containing title and author. Available controls are: {%s}"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:87
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:86
 msgid "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."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:93
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:96
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:92
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:95
 msgid "The format in which to display dates. %d - day, %b - month, %Y - year. Default is: %b, %Y"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:99
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:98
 msgid "Convert paths to lowercase."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:101
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:100
 msgid "Replace whitespace with underscores."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:354
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:378
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:361
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py:385
 msgid "Requested formats not available"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -13366,16 +13365,16 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Control email delivery"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:118
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:119
 msgid "Unknown section"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:140
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:141
 msgid "Unknown feed"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:158
-#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:185
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:159
+#: /home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py:186
 msgid "Untitled article"
 msgstr ""
 

src/calibre/utils/cleantext.py

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ def clean_ascii_chars(txt, charlist=None):
     Remove ASCII control chars: 0 to 8 and 11, 12, 14-31 by default
     This is all control chars except \\t,\\n and \\r
     '''
+    if not txt:
+        return ''
     global _ascii_pat
     if _ascii_pat is None:
         chars = list(range(8)) + [0x0B, 0x0C] + list(range(0x0E, 0x1F))