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Script to Remove UniCode/Illegal Characters from Files' Name

Last post 12-06-2007, 10:16 AM by asgarcymed. 1 replies.


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12-05-2007, 7:40 PM 28992

asgarcymed
Joined on 10-26-2007
Posts 12

Script to Remove UniCode/Illegal Characters from Files' Name

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I have many downloaded files which contain, in its name, UniCode characters (such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebraic, Russian) which are seen as "Illegal Characters" by English version of Windows XP's explorer.exe... This causes serious troubles when managing such files...
Thus, I would like to get a script to automatically delete such characters from files' name, in order to avoid problems when trying to access them...

PS - even when downloading, for example, an eBook (or application) totally written in English, stupidly the files' names can contain such unicode/illegal characters (I think that's because they are hosted in foreign servers)...

Thanks.

Regards.

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12-06-2007, 10:16 AM 29001 in reply to 28992

asgarcymed
Joined on 10-26-2007
Posts 12

Re: Script to Remove UniCode/Illegal Characters from Files' Name

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Someone, outside here, told me about REGULAR EXPRESSIONS... Please give a look at:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=58848&st=0&gopid=444082&#entry444082

and

http://www.isthisthingon.org/unicode/allchars1.php

My problem is that I do not know how to make the RegExp...

I can use VBScript, AutoIt, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl-Tk, or whatever, but I need some help...

Thanks.

Regards.

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