[mb-users] Replacing Windows-Incompatible Characters

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Philipp Wolfer <phw at rubyforge.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Adam Golding <adamgolding at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So Picard replaces " and :  with _  characters.  I wanted to replace them
>> with ' and - respectively, so I wrapped my rename string with:
>>
>> $rreplace($rreplace(     ,",'),:,-)
>>
>> It works using the preview button, but when I press 'save' in picard I
>> still get underscores..
>>
>> ???
>>
>
> Picard will always replace certain characters, that cause trouble on
> filesystem. On windows it will always replace " and : and a few more
> characters. This replacing takes place after the file renaming with tagger
> script and therefore can't be changed.
>
> Allowing all characters will cause more troubles then it solves. Better
> rely on tags instead of the file name.
>
> I'm surprised however, that it replaces the single quotation mark '.
>

I disagree. Users should be able to decide. Picard's current behavior is
correct only as a default behavior, not more. What Adam is trying to do
makes much more sense to me than Picard's default behavior. And anyhow,
showing what will be done then doing something else is definitely not
user-friendly.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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