invalid file name character replacement in recent versions

[Codereamp]

Hi,

I noticed that there's a new feature by default listed as Added support of full-width UTF-8 symbols to replace invalid file name characters (e.g ">", ":", "|") (probably the commit). So when formatting the time, for example, colon (:) is replaced with 'full width colon' (unicode point ff1a).

Is there a existing way force it to return to underscore usage? The reasons why it may be benefifical

• A font one might use can handle such unicode points badly. An example: In Windows 10, Consolas font (bundled with Windows) is often used for console application and I just tested that in cmd.exe when showing filenames with dir command the file name saved by SingleFile has question mark in boxes instead of colons.
• In my case I have some legacy code that works only with ansi names (one one-byte encodings), so I carefully try to avoid unicode symbols that is not decoded correctly to the current one-byte encoding codepage

Thanks

[gildas-lormeau]

The behavior has indeed changed, see #1614.

To revert the changes, update the the hidden option filenameReplacementCharacters (see https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/wiki/Hidden-options) by replacing:

"filenameReplacementCharacters": ["～", "＋", "？", "％", "＊", "：", "｜", "＂", "＜", "＞", "＼"],

with:

"filenameReplacementCharacters": ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_"],

[Codereamp]

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately in ff 134.0b1 SingleFile version 1.22.73 it didn't work. What I did and observed

• Your suggestion verbatim array to array (11 undescores)
• Tried to match the number of elements (13 undescores matching the number of array elements in filenameReplacedCharacters instead of 11 in your post).
• disabled,enabled SingleFile
• Restarted the ff profile
• Looked at the re-export of the imported settings to check whether the new values are there. Yes, they exist in the re-exported variant
• In a profile previously lacking SingleFile, installed the latest version, made export->change (11 underscores)->import

[gildas-lormeau]

The extension is not up to date on the Mozilla store as I write this reply. It will be available once the code has been reviewed by Mozilla.

[gildas-lormeau]

The update is now available on the store of Mozilla.

[Codereamp]

@gildas-lormeau, thanks, the setting works as expected

[gildas-lormeau]

Thank you for the feedback!

[Codereamp]

Sorry, I'm here again :)

As a dedicated fun of SingleFile, I'm using it everywhere, including mobile Firefox :)
Just noticed that on Android (11) the default filename with full-width characters are not rendered correctly (see the screenshot fragment from the MixPlorer file list)

The same effect is in the default Redmi File Manager.

This is just to add to the statistics of this new feature.

But I'm writing also because I could not manage to change the setting (the mobile version of the extension is 1.22.75, updated on Dec 10). The saved file still contains full-width symbols and the re-exported settings file (saved for checking immediately after import) contains reversed filenameReplacementCharacters symbols, so not many underscores as I used for the replace, but the original ones. Not a big deal, but maybe there's an explanation

Thanks