Request: Full Character Support under Compliant Filesystems

[effleurager]

When downloading videos with characters typically unsupported under NTFS, and similarly handling file systems, titles of videos with characters like ? < > \ : * | " , have their contents replaced with safe characters - this handling can be disregarded on many non-Windows, except for the fringe cases of NUL and /, and may be desirable when cataloging videos with filenames true to their titles. Such change could be implemented via a flag, proposedly --original-title.

[manrodriguezf]

Why don't you handle that in your application? for example, save the original title somewhere (i.e dump the JSON info and get it from there) and save the file name and the original title as metadata (say a row in a table in a DB?). Hope that helps

[effleurager]

@manrodriguezf Is "your application" referring to a wrapper I should create, or youtube-dl?

[manrodriguezf]

A wrapper that does those two things I mentioned. Regards

[manrodriguezf]

@Athertonius any luck?

[effleurager]

@manrodriguezf I've been rather busy with University these past weeks, but I'll try something this weekend. 👍

[KarolS]

I think this should not be on by default – Firefox does this by default, I dualboot, and now I have multiple video files with colons or question marks in their names that I cannot open on Windows.