Ascii character issue

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Hello --- I am having an issue with high ascii characters in some of the tags --- where would I find the option to set up a translate table for the characters I need to convert --- also can the characters be specified in hex notation? Thanks

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Could you please show us a screenshot from a real example?

There is no "translation table", but you can use the scripting function
$replace

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to search for a specific character and replace this character - if found - with another one.

You can use one $replace command for several parameter pairs.

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Hello — Thanks for the reply — I don’t think I can get a screen shot, since I have written script in an older language that does not handle files with high Ascii characters (>127) very well

For the most part I will rip a cd using EAC into FLAC format. From then I convert to MP3 — the issue then the script reads the directory with the FLAC file, it could get a filename with a character that were converted from utf-16 (windows schema) to ascii character and that
character it seems does not convert back to the utf-16 code point so when the file is accessed it is not found

The issue seems to center around the dash (-) and the apostrophe
(‘), the ascii value for each would be 0x2D and 0x27. In some case 0x97 and 0x92 are use – that is the issue

Is there a way to specify in the $replace function these hex values?

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I think you are looking for the $char() function and a table of the Windows-1252 character set, 0x80–9F = 128–159.