Renamer script to fix foreign characters???

Icester · 2007-03-21 16:15

I have quite a few classical music files that often use foreign characters (usually German and French) that I need to change to English only. (Some examples are "tilde" characters, u, o, e, and I've even seen an r tilde (example: é). Also, German "ss" (looks like B) and sometimes non-standard characters like "No" (number, but with the "o" raised) and ` characters.

I have found these characters to cause problems to dbPowerAmp and even sometimes Windows explorer (Explorer will not let you rename the files - keeps putting in the special character).

Is there a script already to do this? I know its trivial, but finding the script is the hard part and creating one can be a pain as you have to try to copy & paste all the special characters and I don't know how the Pascal Editor in Rename will handle it.

Thanks

den4b · 2007-03-21 17:10

You don't need Pascal Script rule for that, you can simply use Replace or Translit rule. Translit rule has several predefined alphabets for few languages, have a look at them, they will help you understand how to create one for your case. If you have any problems, don't hesitate to ask

Icester · 2007-03-21 19:40

Thanks, I forgot about that feature. Perfect!!

What an awesome program!

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Renamer script to fix foreign characters???

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