You could even decide that, rather than strip out non-ascii characters,
you would convert (reduce?) each one to a canonical equivalent (where
there is one), and hence instead of
l’Académie française ---> lAcadmiefranaise_1234.livecode
it would become
l’Académie française ---> lAcademiefrancaise_1234.livecode
Marginally more readable, and much more typeable :-)
Alex.
On 24/09/2020 17:26, Dave Cragg via use-livecode wrote:
That's what I was thinking. So the filename for " l’Académie française" might
becomes something like lAcadmiefranaise_1234.livecode. Kind of readable, but guaranteed
unique. (And also allows identifying the database record from the filename if that is
needed.)
(Apologies if this appears twice.)
I'm pretty sure each record has an ID. This would be for ensuring unique file
names, right?
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On September 24, 2020 2:00:50 AM Dave Cragg via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Jacqueline,
You said earlier you don't have a field in the database for the file name. But
does the database table have a unique numerical ID field for each record? If
so, could you strip out the non-ASCII characters and then append the numerical
ID to the file name?
On 23 Sep 2020, at 20:59, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I'm drifting toward the idea of removing non-ascii characters. That might
satisfy all requirements, at least for now. We don't do Sanskrit or Chinese
yet. Or alternately I could bite the bullet and convert my build tool to insert
metadata into the clickable lists. That isn't terribly difficult, I was just
wondering if there was a different way using what we already have.
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