Special characters

[DylanStr]

Thank you for the update Colin. Really appreciate it.

Best regards,

Dylan

[Arno]

@DylanStr

Or is it that # ( ) are all illegal characters?

No, not really.

These are the settings I tried but it still deletes the special characters from the files:

- Use UTF-8 = Yes
- Replace spaces with underscores = No
- Change name to lowercase = No
- Remove/Change special characters in name = No

Any solution for this?

I had now the time to check this more in detail.
Fact is that we have a different handling here when you use the auto monitoring.
When you create a new Download manually you can use special characters in file names. But not when you will add files with the auto monitoring function. In this case are allways special characters removed and not used the configuration settings.

Why? I'm not sure why i had this doing. Maybe had we some problems with very special characters?

It could be a solution when we add for auto monitoring a new option.
This could be:
Use the Folder and Files settings?
Descrition: When activated are used this settings also for the monitoring process. Otherwise are all special characters removed from file and folder names.

In the meantime could you use a small hack to get the required result (until we have more tested the modifications).
Will you try it?

@Colin

I have now reproduced your problem! It is illustrated in the two composite pics attached.
Firstly the  'clean' used by jD is the standard Joomla! one.  Code changes to that would not be a good idea.  However that is not the problem as jD correctly replaces the file with the new version.  The problem is that jD then goes on to create a new Download, or rather does not delete the old one.   This is obviously not correct so I have raised it to a 'bug'. 

I hope that i can also fix this in the next version.

[DylanStr]

In the meantime could you use a small hack to get the required result (until we have more tested the modifications).
Will you try it?

@ColinI hope that i can also fix this in the next version.

Hi Arno,
Thanks for your reply. How can I do that small hack to try it out? I really want to get this going. My website is still offline because of this special character problem. Looking forward to test it!

Best regards,

Dylan