Why does $ascii not support German modifiers? Causes me problems, Was “$ascii()” (TOS #6) Options

[regsucksdan]

OK, I'm just curios who was the smart guy who decided to drop German scharfes-s in $ascii()? Is it that hard to cover the common Western EU languages (ISO-8859-1) decently? Scharfes-s goes to ss, Vowel+umlaut goes to Vowel-e (eg ae, oe etc).

50 CDs ruined.

[ojdo]

That's the ASCII standard.

Tagging of 50 CDs should be fairly easy to properly retag with first fixing the album/artist tags by release and then fixing the title tracks by once selecting all tracks and then editing the title tag track by track.

[foosion]

The $ascii() function is implemented using a standard Windows function for character set conversion. Note that the function performs a conversion and not a transcription. This means it replaces each Unicode character with its ASCII equivalent if one exists. A transcription would be what you wanted, i.e. replacing each Unicode character with a sequence of ASCII characters to preserve the meaning of the original. In foobar2000 this is best done using the $replace() function instead of the $ascii() function. For example:

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$replace(%artist%,Ä,Ae,ä,ae,Ö,Oe,ö,oe,Ü,Ue,ü,ue,ß,ss)

This post has been edited by db1989: Mar 2 2012, 18:13

Reason for edit: amended as per post #5

[Sunhillow]

Not the most polite tone for a first post

... says a german

[fbuser]

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$replace(%artist%,Ä,Ae,ä,ae,Ö,Oe,ö,oe,Ü,ue,ü,ue,ß,ss)

Small correction, Ü should become Ue:

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$replace(%artist%,Ä,Ae,ä,ae,Ö,Oe,ö,oe,Ü,Ue,ü,ue,ß,ss)

[foosion]

Oops, thanks for the correction.