Replace Umlauts

[admin]

Just curious: Does anybody ever use the command "Replace Umlauts"?

I plan to replace it by a new command "Replace Funny Characters" (yes, a chauvinist name, but I think people will get the irony in it) which will remove or substitute any (and not just the German umlauts) non ASCII characters in a filename.

[highend]

Does anybody ever use the command "Replace Umlauts"?

<-

I plan to replace it by a new command "Replace Funny Characters"

I don't think Filemanagers were made for irony

[admin]

what is "<-"?

[highend]

<-

means "me".

[admin]

OK, the new function would do the folowing in this order:

1. replace umlauts (ä -> ae)
2. remove diacritics (à -> a)
3. replace non-ASCII (ordinal > 127) with replacement character

I think that would work for -> as well.

[highend]

I think that would work for -> as well.

You should always use <- because it points to you (the author of a thread). And it isn't used (at least normally) in a sentence. It's for the lazy people!

*g*

[admin]

-> means you

[Borut]

OK, the new function would do the folowing in this order:

1. replace umlauts (ä -> ae)
2. remove diacritics (à -> a)
3. replace non-ASCII (ordinal > 127) with replacement character

I think that would work for -> as well.

As far as I get it, you are replacing special language cases (for German; then for accents in general) first, and then running over some Unicode replacement functions/procedures.

But, beside German, some other languages developed diacritics to ascii schemes too (some more official, some less so, but useful). These come sometimes handy, albeit rarely.

Maybe you could envisage a step 2a, where some mapping could be done, defined via some simple file with a table. Is just an idea.

Regarding "funny": it might be funny to you and me, but maybe not so to a few other billion people, once a few other translations for XYplorer will exist.

[admin]

Well, I'm currently not sure anymore whether this was a good idea. Would anybody need such a "Replace Funny Characters" (or "Replace non-ASCII Characters") function?

[SkyFrontier]

All of the time.
My first script requests and attempts were mainly for fixing weird stuff coming from everywhere to just cause issues, sometimes with the least minimum clue on 'non-unicode support'.
That's why 90% (I'm getting tired over 15 years of this) of the time I camelCase/filter non-ASCII characters out of my systems.

So yes, the 'replace funny chars' (specially in that progression order) is very welcome.

[admin]

Do you have some funny example filenames for me as crash test dummies?

[SkyFrontier]

Mr. Postman may have something for you.

[admin]

OK, the funny char cleaner is there. Test it.

[admin]

Nobody?

[Borut]

As far as I am concerned: It works as advertised.