[Enhancement] Use "Author Sort" instead of "Author" in the folder structure
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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calibre |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When adding a book whose "Author" or "Title" field use non-Latin characters, Calibre displays the original name in its GUI, but the folders in the filesystem are Romanised. This makes perfect sense, as there is seldom need to access the books via the filesystem, which in turn might not play nice with non-Latin characters.
The problem arises, in my experience, when adding Japanese books. Japanese is usually written via Chinese characters, which are Romanised by Calibre as if they were Hanyu Pinyin, i.e. using their Chinese pronunciation. This turns the filesystem folder name for both author and title into unreadable gibberish.
A partial solution to the above is changing Calibre's language to Japanese, but then the same issue (I imagine) arises for Chinese books.
The solution I would propose is to use "Sort Author" and "Sort Title" for the filesystem names: these are used for sorting alphabetically, thus they need to be Romanised to begin with.
They dont need to be romanised. calibre can sort any alphabet. Sadly
because of the usual racist nonsense CJK glyphs were all shoved into the
same set of unicode codepoints, so there is no way to represent them
independent of UI language. The best you can do is set your UI language
to the language of the majority of your books.