[REBOL] Re: Bad accent causes problem
From: SunandaDH:aol at: 11-Oct-2003 10:06
Patrick:
> Publishing photos on Internet, I got problems with filename with
> accent. For example, a photo named "Ebouriffée.jpg" displays well under
> Windows, but give me an "HTTP error 404" under Linux.
Getting universally-acceptable files names takes a little care. REBOL.org,
for example accepts script contributions whose names are (I think this is the
full set of rules):
-- made up only of lowercase unaccented letters, hyphens, digits, and periods
(".")
-- First and last cannot be hyphens or periods
-- First cannot be a digit
-- Maximum of one period
Those rules are a little restricted (no spaces or "$" or "#" etc), but they
should stand the test of time.....Though we probably need to think about a
maximum file name length.
Here's a function to convert accented letters. You might want to edit
'replacements to replace accents with digraphs or other multi-letter combinations.
=====
deaccent: func [file-name [file!]
/local accents replacements
]
[
accents: ["à" "é" "è" "ï" "ô" "ù" "ç"]
replacements: ["a" "e" "e" "i" "o" "u" "c"]
lowercase file-name
foreach accent accents
[replace/all file-name accent pick replacements index? find accents
accent]
] ;; func
print ["before " f]
f: %Ebouriffée-àéèïôùç-àéèïôùç.jpg
deaccent f
print ["after " f]
=====
Sunanda.
