Remove special characters

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5.0
Description:

Rename all files and directories, including sub directories, removing or replacing special characters.
The new name is compatible with MS-DOS FAT16 and URL (RFC 1738)
All characters different from A–Z, 0–9 and $-_!'() are renamed

For exemple :
* Fichier d'écriture *.txt
Will be renamed in :
-_Fichier_d_ecriture_-.txt

You can edit rm_special_char.py to change the new characters.

To install, simply put rm_special_char.py and rm_special_char.desktop in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus

Don't hesitate giving feedbacks or improvements.
Last changelog:

13 years ago

1.1 RELEASE
======================================

BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> Include all ASCII characters


1.2 RELEASE
======================================

NEW FEATURES :
001 ==> Choose if you want to rename to lower cases or not

BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> Remove all non ASCII characters
002 ==> Translation table updated for german characters


1.3 RELEASE
======================================

BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> Now it also renames the first directory (the one you make the action on, not only files and sub-directories contained in it)

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danux

11 years ago

I tried to run it in KDE 4 and din't work, so I modified the .desktop file to:


[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.3
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=Remove_special_characters;Remove_special_characters_lower
X-KDE-Submenu=Recursively remove special characters
X-KDE-Submenu[fr]=Supprimer les caractères spéciaux récursivement
X-KDE-Submenu[es]=Remover caracteres especiales

[Desktop Action Remove_special_characters]
Name=keeping UPPER cases
Name[fr]=en gardant les MAJUSCULES
Name[es]=conservando las MAYÚSCULAS
Icon=background
Exec=~/bin/rm_special_char.py %u %n && kdialog --title "Special characters successfully removed" --passivepopup "" 5; echo
Exec[fr]=~/bin/rm_special_char.py %u %n && kdialog --title "Les caractères spéciaux ont été supprimés avec succès" --passivepopup "" 5; echo
Exec[es]=~/bin/rm_special_char.py %u %n && kdialog --title "Se han removido los caracteres especiales, manteniendo las mayúsculas" --passivepopup "" 5; echo

[Desktop Action Remove_special_characters_lower]
Name=renaming in lower cases
Name[fr]=en renommant en minuscules
Name[es]=renombrar y pasar a minúsculas
Icon=background
Exec=~/bin/rm_special_char.py %u %n -lower && kdialog --title "Special characters successfully removed" --passivepopup "" 5; echo
Exec[fr]=~/bin/rm_special_char.py %u %n -lower && kdialog --title "Les caractères spéciaux ont été supprimés avec succès" --passivepopup "" 5; echo
Exec[es]=~/bin/rm_special_char.py %u %n -lower && kdialog --title "Se han removido los caracteres especiales, cambiando todo a minúsculas" --passivepopup "" 5; echo



By the way I also added Spanish translation.


¡¡Atention KDE4 users!!

You have to put your .desktop file to: ~/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus

You have to put the .py file to:
~/bin (local bin folder)
or specify the correct location in the path of the .desktop file.

If you have some path problems (like me) you can try to change ~/ to /home/yourname/

Hope this helps someone.

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cewanf

13 years ago

Thanks for great addition to Konqueror!

Would it be possible to have this menu for single files as well, and not just directories?

BR

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app3al

13 years ago

Nice idea you had!

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poliicallycorrect

13 years ago

Would be better if apps accept special characters !!!! (and no need of this app...)

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Topazz

13 years ago

Sure, but when you went to upload files on the internet, give files to a friend that hasn't got linux (or import files from a fat32 or NTFS drive), read music or pictures files elsewhere than on a computer, ... it's quite safe removing theses characters, specially because computers are designed for english language...

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daphreak

13 years ago

This is one of the little scripts that makes life easier ! Thanks !

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panzi

13 years ago

nice.

Is it checking for collisions? And I would suggest to convert characters like é to e and ä to ae etc. ;)
And what about lower/upper case? FAT ignores the case but linux filesystems don't (cp /extfs/foo /extfs/FOO /fat will raise a error).

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whiskybar

13 years ago

I don't know but maybe you can transform the accented characters to their unaccented the way unac does it:

http://www.nongnu.org/unac/

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Topazz

13 years ago

> Is it checking for collisions ?
Yes, if a file become the same name as an other one, it ads as many "-" characters it needs at the beginning of the name.
(Since today 20H40, before it was at the end)

> I would suggest to convert characters like é to e and ä to ae
Look at the translation code in rm_special_char.py
You will see that é becomes e as you say, but ä becomes a.
If you think it's better to rename ä to ae, I can modify the source code, but in that case post me a list of all the characters you think it's better to change (looking in rm_special_char.py)

> And what about lower/upper case?
I though at this problem, and for the moment upper case aren't renamed in lower case.
But you're right, I will change that.
In the next version all upper cases will be rename in lower cases.
Check for version 1.2 tomorrow.

Thanks for your suggestions, Topazz.

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panzi

13 years ago

If it's not possible to write an umlaut, it is common to use this translation:

ä -> ae
Ä -> Ae
ü -> ue
Ü -> Ue
ö -> oe
Ö -> Oe
ß -> ss or sz or just s ("sharp s")

These letters are uses in german.

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Topazz

13 years ago

Thanks, I will change that also.

Would you have the german translation of :
Recursively remove special characters
and :
Recursively create M3U playlists
?

Thanks in advance

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Topazz

13 years ago

Version 1.2 is now online.
For this version, I would need also the german translation of :
keeping UPPER cases
renaming in lower cases

Thanks

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quax

13 years ago

Recursively remove special characters
[de]=Sonderzeichen rekursiv entfernen

"Special characters successfully removed for \"%n\""
[de]="Sonderzeichen von \"%n\"erfolgreich entfernt"

keeping UPPER cases
[de]=Grossbuchstaben erhalten


renaming in lower cases
[de]=In Kleinbuchstaben umwandeln


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13 years ago

1.1 RELEASE
======================================

BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> Include all ASCII characters


1.2 RELEASE
======================================

NEW FEATURES :
001 ==> Choose if you want to rename to lower cases or not

BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> Remove all non ASCII characters
002 ==> Translation table updated for german characters


1.3 RELEASE
======================================

BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> Now it also renames the first directory (the one you make the action on, not only files and sub-directories contained in it)

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