Tvheadend

It looks like another request to mangle the channel names to picon filenames. Doesn't ?

So actually "Channel icon name lower-case" should become a combobox with label 'channel name scheme' with two options 'lower-case names' and 'service name picons'.

Yes, something like that. It's more than just lower case, though, as there needs to be that standardised way to handle the special characters - so you mangle/slugify from "BBC Three HD with EXTRA &Bells+ on!!" to "bbcthreehdwithstarextrastarandbellsplus..." or however the translation in the sample code works.

If it's a recognised approach - and I don't know if this really is widely-adopted - then it at least gives a template way to handle it.

Added to v4.1-1422-gafa1a3c .

Thanks for this - it works well once you tweak a couple of options.

One question: the sample code seems to use a-z/0-9, translate &, + and *, and strip any other characters, if I understand it correctly:

name = re.sub('[^a-z0-9]', '', name.replace('&', 'and').replace('+', 'plus').replace('*', 'star').lower())

... but I think your implementation just removes everything except a-z/0-9, does it not? I don't know which is the "correct" way vs just being a different approach. I suppose it depends on whether https://picons.xyz/ is definitive, as that's where the trail begins.

The svcnamepicons() does all string transitions:

1) lowercase
2) [a-z0-9] filter
3) replacing &, + and * with words

For example:

d[0] = 'a'; d[1] = 'n'; d[2] = 'd'; d += 3;

writes "and" to the destination string - see 'a' 'n' 'd' characters .....

Okay, found a little copy bug: https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/repository/revisions/e29df17984c5e743b8a5ff1fc94ef9273b2166d5

Yup, that fixed it - it was obviously simply skipping over "+", which is the one I noticed as the most common of these characters. Working as intended, I think - thanks.