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Subject: Re: Flash renamer suggestion
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:04:36 +0200Chinese characters are "multibyte" (unicode) and unfortunately FR does not support these because the underlying programming environment does not support them. So there is nothing I can do (unless Microsoft decides to update vb6, which is highly unlikely)
// Dan
Aaron - AC Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd (AUSTRALIA) wrote:
> Thanks Dan
>
> So many features in Flash rename!
>
> I made a custom script but in the browse mode I get an error for each
> filename with Chinese character. However in free select it loads the
> filename without error. Any suggestions or ideas.
>
> Regards
> Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 11:47 PM
> To: *****@*****
> Subject: Re: Flash Renamer suggestion
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have included a script called "safe characters" that will turn å into a
> etc. You will find it in the "scripting" function. If something is missing
> you can add it yourself by modifying the script. It does however not support
> chinese and other non-western characters.
>
> // Dan
>
>
> Aaron - AC Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd (AUSTRALIA) wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan
>>
>> Is there some way I can rename files with non-English characters and
>> remove those characters whilst preserving the English names?
>>
>> I get a lot of these files now with English and Chinese but the
>> Chinese messes up my backups and all sorts of things.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>>
>> Could a feature like "clean non-English characters" be added that
>> would remove the non-English and then add a number if the file was the
>> same as another file in that folder.
>>
>> Regards
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
// Dan
Aaron - AC Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd (AUSTRALIA) wrote:
> Thanks Dan
>
> So many features in Flash rename!
>
> I made a custom script but in the browse mode I get an error for each
> filename with Chinese character. However in free select it loads the
> filename without error. Any suggestions or ideas.
>
> Regards
> Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 11:47 PM
> To: *****@*****
> Subject: Re: Flash Renamer suggestion
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have included a script called "safe characters" that will turn å into a
> etc. You will find it in the "scripting" function. If something is missing
> you can add it yourself by modifying the script. It does however not support
> chinese and other non-western characters.
>
> // Dan
>
>
> Aaron - AC Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd (AUSTRALIA) wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan
>>
>> Is there some way I can rename files with non-English characters and
>> remove those characters whilst preserving the English names?
>>
>> I get a lot of these files now with English and Chinese but the
>> Chinese messes up my backups and all sorts of things.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>>
>> Could a feature like "clean non-English characters" be added that
>> would remove the non-English and then add a number if the file was the
>> same as another file in that folder.
>>
>> Regards
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>