Replacing "smart quotes" with apostrophe in filenames
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Mark
Oct 14, 2015, 12:54:40 PM10/14/15
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Hi everyone,
When beets changes the file name for a song that has "smart quotes" (e.g. left single quotation mark ‘ and right single quotation mark ’), it will use them.
However, I would prefer to have beets use the plain old apostrophe (') instead. I'm looking into using the replace setting, but I can't quite get things to work. Here's what I currently have:
replace:
'[\\/]': " - "
'^\.': " - "
'[\x00-\x1f]': " - "
'[\x91\x92]': "'"
'[<>:"\?\*\|]': " - "
'\.$': " - "
'\s+$': ""
'^\s+': ""
Unfortunately, this still doesn't seem to work when I tried to re-import a song which had a smart quote in it, as the resulting file still had the smart quote in it.
Note that I only want this replacement for "smart quotes"; I still want to allow other accented characters (like é) and foreign characters (like あ) through, so I'm not sure if the asciify option is suitable for this case.
When beets changes the file name for a song that has "smart quotes" (e.g. left single quotation mark ‘ and right single quotation mark ’), it will use them.
However, I would prefer to have beets use the plain old apostrophe (') instead. I'm looking into using the replace setting, but I can't quite get things to work. Here's what I currently have:
replace:
'[\\/]': " - "
'^\.': " - "
'[\x00-\x1f]': " - "
'[\x91\x92]': "'"
'[<>:"\?\*\|]': " - "
'\.$': " - "
'\s+$': ""
'^\s+': ""
Unfortunately, this still doesn't seem to work when I tried to re-import a song which had a smart quote in it, as the resulting file still had the smart quote in it.
Note that I only want this replacement for "smart quotes"; I still want to allow other accented characters (like é) and foreign characters (like あ) through, so I'm not sure if the asciify option is suitable for this case.
Adrian Sampson
Oct 14, 2015, 1:12:30 PM10/14/15
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This looks about right -- I don't see anything immediately wrong.
Anyone else have something like this working with `replace` instead of
`asciify`?
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Anyone else have something like this working with `replace` instead of
`asciify`?
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Mark
Oct 15, 2015, 11:18:29 PM10/15/15
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Just wondering... if you tried using replace like this in your own config file, does it work?
Daniele Giglio
Mar 3, 2017, 6:14:59 AM3/3/17
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Excuse me, can you please explain me where these hex values come from?
According to ASCII table '`' corresponds to x60, and '´' to xB4.
Bye.
'[\x91\x92]': "'"
According to ASCII table '`' corresponds to x60, and '´' to xB4.
Bye.
Adrian Sampson
Mar 3, 2017, 10:59:42 AM3/3/17
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Daniele Giglio
Mar 3, 2017, 11:45:36 AM3/3/17
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Il giorno venerdì 3 marzo 2017 16:59:42 UTC+1, Adrian Sampson ha scritto:
Those are Unicode codepoints. For example:
Sorry if I insist, but it makes non sense to me:
'DEVICE CONTROL STRING' (U+0090)
'PRIVATE USE ONE' (U+0091)
Aren't we talking about quotes ?
Adrian Sampson
Mar 3, 2017, 12:11:44 PM3/3/17
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Hmm, you’re right—those are not what I thought they were. It looks like those might be the codepoints for single quotes in Latin-1, but that seems like it won’t work in beets…
Daniele Giglio
Mar 3, 2017, 12:19:31 PM3/3/17
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Il giorno venerdì 3 marzo 2017 18:11:44 UTC+1, Adrian Sampson ha scritto:
Hmm, you’re right—those are not what I thought they were. It looks like those might be the codepoints for single quotes in Latin-1, but that seems like it won’t work in beets…
As I wrote before, maybe are these the correct ones?
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0060/index.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00B4/index.htm
Bye.
Adrian Sampson
Mar 3, 2017, 12:21:08 PM3/3/17
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Yeah, if you want to match the accent characters—but if you want to match the “curly” quotes, these are they:
Daniele Giglio
Mar 3, 2017, 12:25:00 PM3/3/17
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Il giorno venerdì 3 marzo 2017 18:21:08 UTC+1, Adrian Sampson ha scritto:
Yeah, if you want to match the accent characters—but if you want to match the “curly” quotes, these are they:
Thanks a lot, dealing with fonts it's always a headache source.
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