Bug #1625
Filename: Umlaute and special characters
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Description
At the moment it is not possible to configure the filenames to clear special characters (e.g. and keep the german umlaute (e.g. äöü) at the same time. The colon is not "windows-safe".
History
Updated by Adam Sutton almost 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Accepted
- Affected Versions 3.4 added
This is being looked at, need to decide whether to put this into 3.4.
Adam
Updated by Damian Gołda almost 11 years ago
Updated by Damian Gołda almost 10 years ago
New fix in new pull request:
https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/pull/581
Updated by Rob vh almost 10 years ago
We still have a problem with directory names ending in a . (dot), which happens when you have a unique directory for the title and the title is longer than normal. In that case, the title will be truncated and ends in ...
Windows will not open directories that end in a .
Updated by Damian Gołda almost 10 years ago
According to http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/320081/en
Cause 6: The file name includes an invalid name in the Win32 name space
You may not be able to delete a file if the file name includes an invalid name (for example, the file name has a trailing space or a trailing period or the file name is made up of a space only).
So trailing spaces and trailing dots should be removed (or replaced??)
Updated by Rob vh almost 10 years ago
obviously, that applies only to directory names because recording files end in .ts or .mkv.
replace trailing dots only when 'remove unsafe characters' has been selected.
trimming blanks is a good idea, any time.
Updated by Damian Gołda almost 10 years ago
- Status changed from Accepted to Fixed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset commit:tvheadend|0196790734e6562548b2f721908c53be215dd5a2.