[Thunar-dev] thunar-media-rename-plugin

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:24:22 +0300
Stavros Giannouris <stavrosg2002 at freemail.gr> wrote:

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> Skiping the rest, as I am not annoyed anyway, ;^)
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> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:09:48 +0200
> Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:49:34 +0200
> > samuel verstraete <samuel.verstraete at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 3. a tag can contain characters that are nog allowed in a
> > > filename... f.e. "?" ... and it happen to be that this ?-sign is
> > > in a lot of my tags or so it seems
> > 
> > "?" is allowed in filenames. You just have to escape it when working
> > on the shell. Some people might want to use it (e.g. there may be
> > song titles like "Guess what?"). If I would disallow "?", I'd also
> > have to replace spaces because they have to be escaped in the
> > shell, too. 
> > 
> 
> The point is that there are certain Operating Systems, and their
> filesystems (that shall remain nameless) that do not allow certain
> characters, and bitch about it in almost every occasion. If they find
> such a file (f.e. in a samba share), they pretend it doesn't exist.
> 
> I am sure that many people would like to remain compatible to that,
> for many reasons, like because they are forced to work in such
> enviroments.

That's no problem. Just search for a good tag editor (which allows you
to change a lot of files in a fast way) and fix the tags.

Anyway, if there's a list of absolutely incompatible chars, I might
consider replacing them with underscores (which again not everyone
likes).

- Jannis
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