I have created six actionsgroups for the purpose of transcoding UTF-8 Unicode characters into 7-bit ASCII characters (see attached MTA files). Each group of actions encloses a special set of Unicode characters, so that you are free to combine what replacement presentation you need. The transcoding…

Thank you, Stevest. See updated post #1 at top of the thread. DD.20081005.2245.CEST

Thank you again, you made my life easier. The new included rtf is very very useful to see the differences between the scripts.

[image] Stevest: ... Thank you again, you made my life easier. The new included rtf is very very useful to see the differences between the scripts. The transcoding overview now uses a proper unicode font and has been changed from rtf document to a zipped pdf document. DD.20081008.1604.CEST

Just downloaded and tried (diacritics) this. Seems it doesn't work?

Could you specify what does not work? Have you filled the field uni_to_asc?

I’ve imported the .mta file into my actions folder, then triggered the action. It runs but doesn’t do anything.

[image] Patch: It runs but doesn’t do anything. This does not anwer the question [image] ohrenkino: Have you filled the field uni_to_asc? What would you expect should happen? It would be worthwhile to have a look at the action and see what it does - and then adapt it according to you…

Thanks - I understand now. I’ll change the field that the action gets applied to to %_filename% and try that.

Unicode to ASCII

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Stevest October 3, 2008, 6:23pm 2

Thank you very much. Great job.

Erste Eindrücke - und schon ein paar Vorschläge