[mb-users] Replacing Windows-Incompatible Characters

[Philipp Wolfer]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I disagree.


I just explained how it currently works, no reason to 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.


Picard 0.10 will make the Tagger script evaluation before the replacement of
invalid characters. That way a substitution like Adam is trying to do will
work, as long as you use a valid character as a replacement. And the preview
will match the final output.

There is one limitation however: Slashes and backslashes (the delimiters
between directory names) will still be replaced by underscores, no matter
what replacement you define. This is not easily solvable.

However, in the end the file names are always subject to technical
limitations, which are different on various platforms. So not every
desirable naming can be achieved. That's why I suggest to rely more on file
tags than on file names for the details. Of course the filenames should be
customizable and as good as possible, after all that's one of Picards most
important use cases.

-- 
Philipp Wolfer
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