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Subject: Re: Album art and special characters

Re: Album art and special characters

From: Magnus Holmgren <lear_at_algonet.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:19:15 +0200

asettico wrote:

> is it possible to fix following case with no source modification?
>
> An album title contains some special characters (!, ?), so the file name
> of the related bitmap should contains those characters too, but in FAT32
> are illegal.
>
> The only solution that comes in my mind is to remove them by the album
> title, changing its right name. ;-)
>
> Some suggestions?

Rockbox already filters out illegal characters, replacing them with
single quotes (for double quotes) or underscores. Underscores are used
for these chars: * / : < > ? \ |

   Magnus
Received on 2008-04-11

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