mherger wrote: > Editing on Windows, transfering to a Linux system > using Samba, writing to a fat32 file system... there are too many ways > > this can break. You better just drop an artist.jpg file in a folder of > > that artist. I don't know whether I'll ever figure this one out. >
I recently came across an interesting perl module while looking for an easy way to improve my file name cleaning script: 'Text::Unidecode' (http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Text-Unidecode-0.04/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm): > > What Text::Unidecode provides is a function, unidecode(...) that takes > Unicode data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters. The > representation is almost always an attempt at transliteration -- i.e., > conveying, in Roman letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in > some other writing system. > You could use the transliterated artist name for the file name, completely avoiding any special characters. It's pure perl, so it'd be easy to bundle. [ extGUI4LMS - an alternative web interface: 'forum' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98186-Announce-Alternative-Web-Interface-(beta)) / 'homepage' (http://code.google.com/p/extgui4lms/) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99537 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
