RE: Easytag 2.4.0 - Illegal characters for windows FS

[Walter Hüttenmeyer <walter huettenmeyer gmx at>]

Hi David,

thanks for your quick response. Do you think it would be possible to implement a multi-line input box in the 
"process fields" where I can put one replacement per line?
So if I put my array of

ä       ae
ö       oe

etc there, it would replace (even if it does one full scan of files per character substitution) the chars as 
desired? Tinkering a table that maps the illegal chars to valid ones, could be left up to the user/community 
then.

Besides that, thank you for your great work - there ain't a tagger like EasyTag!

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: David King [mailto:amigadave amigadave com] 
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 9:41 AM
To: Walter Hüttenmeyer
Cc: easytag-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Easytag 2.4.0 - Illegal characters for windows FS

Hi Walter

On 2015-10-31 11:26, Walter Hüttenmeyer <walter huettenmeyer gmx at> wrote:
> I recently had to do a backup of my music collection to an NTFS drive 
> that is read under windows 10. Unfortunately, my files contain 
> characters that are not valid and thus the files get removed at the 
> first chkdsk.
>
> I've spent quite some time googling this issue, but could not come up 
> with a sufficient solution - there's a tool called detox, which will 
> basically remove the illegal chars and replace them by underscores, but 
> it fails on german special accents (ISO8859-15) and replaces them with 
> some garbage.

There is a known bug with filename handling and Windows (in EasyTAG):

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689450

Fixing it requires going through the whole EasyTAG codebase and making sure that filename encoding conversion 
is handled properly at each step. 
This can get pretty complicated, and I have not had the time to do this yet.

> My idea here is that EasyTag could actually have an option to replace a 
> list of characters with another list of characters - like two arrays.
>
> for example it should substitute
> ä with ae
> ö with oe
> ü with ue
> many other special chars should just be removed.
>
> I have found no option in the current easytag - can anyone help me out, 
> please?

You might be able to use the "Process fields" part of the scanner, but it would be pretty cumbersome to 
replace each of the characters in turn.

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