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In version 4.4, ":" was replaced with underscores. Now they are replaced with ";". This has been creating many duplicate folders. I was told this can't be changed automatically, but that you might make it an option if requested here for V4.6, so here is the request. It would be nice to be able to choose how ":" are renamed, either to ; or _ or nothing at all, just a space in the file name might make some people happy.

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Yeah, the semicolon was a bad idea.
The 0.4.6 release will replace it with another character and have an option to remove illegal characters altogether.

Any idea when 4.6 will be out? also will we be back to underscores or will it be an option that the user can choose how to handle illegal characters, then meaning that I can make it underscores if I want?


Thanks

I'd like to second the motion of having options to choose what characters to replace with what. I prefer my illegal characters to get replaced with dash/hyphen "-", and a few options in the preferences allowing us to choose what character(s) to replace illegals with would be great.

The replacement will be more sensible.
\  ==> +
/  ==> +
{
> ==> }
?  ==> !
* ==> @
:  ==> -
;  ==> -
"  ==> `

The option will be replace or delete.
We're not going overboard by letting you do your own mapping.
If you still don't like the mapping you can do your own corrections in a simple user script.

0.4.6 is going through testing by the release team.
At least RC1 is, but RC2 is close on it heals (fixing the semicolon problem).

Will there be an option to not use it at all for those of us that don't use Windows?

Currently the characters ä,ö,ü are changed to a,o,u respectively. ß doesn't seem to be converted to anything and just stripped out. With German, if you omit an umlaut the word can mean something totally different. May I recommend that ä, ö, ü be changed to ae, oe, ue and that ß is changed to ss ?

aaearon wrote: Currently the characters ä,ö,ü are changed to a,o,u respectively. ß doesn't seem to be converted to anything and just stripped out. With German, if you omit an umlaut the word can mean something totally different. May I recommend that ä, ö, ü be changed to ae, oe, ue and that ß is changed to ss ?

What you describe is done by newzbin.com!
If you enter a newzbin report number into SABnzbd, the filename offered by newzbin is used.
Newzbin sanitizes the name using its own rules.

The character replacement done by SABnzbd only occurs for RSS feeds.
For feeds, SABnzbd uses the title of a NZB job and not its filename.
Titles can have all sorts of illegal characters, hence the clean-up.

Accented characters are handled properly in SABnzbd 0.4.5.
Only not by newzbin!