#167 Renaming files using tags should ignore or replace invalid characters

[rasq]

Renaming files using tags will use invalid characters like '/' in the specified tags, causing files to fail to save. They must be renamed again (manually, using different tags, or after removing invalid characters from all tags used) before the file can be saved.

[Urs Fleisch]

This is already possible using some configuration options. Go to the "Files" tab in the settings. As it depends on the filesystem what an invalid character is, the replacement of characters can be configured in the "String replacement" table at the bottom. By default, illegal characters of the common file systems are mapped as well as some latin1 characters in order to have only ASCII characters in the file names. If this is too restrictive, you can remove entries from the table. If "String replacement" is checked, these replacements will be done when then menu function "Tools/Apply Filename Format" is executed or automatically if the "Format while editing" option at the top of the "Filename format" section of the "Files" tab in the settings is checked. So you just have to check this option to avoid renaming files with invalid characters.

[Urs Fleisch]

I have now changed the name of this option from "Format while editing" to "Automatically apply format" and hope to make it thereby easier to discover.

[Urs Fleisch]

The configuration option should now be a bit clearer in Kid3 3.5.1.