RE: Easytag 2.4.0 - Illegal characters for windows FS

[Walter Hüttenmeyer <walter huettenmeyer gmx at>]

Hi David,

I agree - that would be the best solution. Maybe one could select which charset the files should be valid to?
So if I limit the filenames to e.g. ISO-8859-1, any Windows O$ should be able to read those filenames.

Thanks for your time.
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From: David King [mailto:amigadave amigadave com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 10:30 AM
To: Walter Hüttenmeyer
Cc: easytag-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Easytag 2.4.0 - Illegal characters for windows FS

Hi Walter

On 2015-11-05 09:46, Walter Hüttenmeyer <walter huettenmeyer gmx at> wrote:
> 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.

It is possible, but I think that a better approach would be to fix the filename handling in EasyTAG to be 
consistent. That should solve the problem, and avoid having to substitute the (valid) characters in filenames.

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