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| ==Non-ASCII characters==
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| ===The Issue===
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| Non-ASCII characters (such as á, ñ, and ’ ) in the Windows pathnames (folder and file names) of music library tracks can cause problems due to incompatiblities with:
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| * Macintosh
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| * Portable music players (where they can prevent play of the file and of subsequent files)
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| * FTP clients and servers (where each often appears as a garbage character pair)
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| * Some utility programs e.g. FLAC encoder, Beyond Compare 2
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| * File-sharing programs
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| ===Workaround===
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| Replace non-ASCII characters with e.g. the nearest ASCII equivalent:
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| * accented char -> non-accented equivalent
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| * left and right quotes -> upright quote
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| Replacement can be performed by [[Mp3tag]] using an Action Groups containing a Replace action for each character.
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| ====further restrictions====
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| One could also like to avoid urlencoding in urls. Or avoid that case has a meaning.
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| *restrictions further as ascii could be:
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| **prefer usage of only A-Za-z0-9_
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| ***or only a-z_
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| **. for fileextensions, otherwise undecided, probably avoid
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| **' not decided yet, if removed, how to write D'Arienzo?
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| **, avoid, at least in work titles
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| **[]() maybe reserve for special meaning
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| **space always replaced with _
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| ===work_name_az===
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| There can be lot of discussion whether a title should include ",!?." or such special chars like the spanish leading question mark. There can also be discussion about correct case (upper/lower). The a-z-title is a title that can be derived from lot of different original opinions about correctness. For filenames and references in databases it could be helpfull to have a-z worktitles.
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| * remove all diacritics
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| * make all characters lower case
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| * replace space, comma, dot, with _
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| * reduce repeating _ to single _
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| *examples
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| **http://eng.tango.info/work:la_maleva - disambiguation page
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| **http://eng.tango.info/work:la_viruta - work page - unique match
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| **Un jardín de ilusión -> http://eng.tango.info/work:un_jardin_de_ilusion
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| **La puñalada -> http://eng.tango.info/work:la_punalada
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| **Qué falta que me hacés! -> http://eng.tango.info/work:que_falta_que_me_haces
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| ===External references===
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| * Most common non-ASCII 8-bit characters: http://www.microsoft.com/GLOBALDEV/Reference/sbcs/1252.mspx
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