[mb-users] Replacing Windows-Incompatible Characters

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Philipp Wolfer <phw at rubyforge.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Ah, I misunderstood, sorry.



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.
>

Of course.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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