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Old 05-30-2007
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Originally Posted by xramm
I want to make a script for change filename's character not in English for a given directory. But I am not sure where am I starting from due to I am a little bit new user for scripts.
At least is there anybody can help me to make first step ,how can I find illegal or unwanted characters in file names and then maybe I have to make a conversion for example: from ı to i , from ö to o... like this..

Thanks a million.
Surely the first place to start is to know what an illegal character is, do you have a finite list of them? And what you would want to convert them from and to? I think to do it for any given dictionary would be a massive job, could be wrong!