Leave Spaces In Filenames

[Taddeusz]

Since it's no longer 1990 spaces are ok in filenames. I was poking around in the code to see if I could change the way SageTV names recordings. I noticed that there is a property called "extended_filenames" that when set to "true" tells SageTV to leave all the spaces in and even adds spaces to the dividers.

However, there doesn't appear to be any option to set that property in Detailed Setup.

Personally, I would like to make "extended_filenames=true" be the default option. In this day and age we shouldn't be scared to have spaces in our filenames. For those that don't care for the spaces it would be nice if there was an option in Detailed Settings->Customize to change this option. I'm not familiar with STV programming so I have no idea how to add an option to set a property. I would like some help adding this option to Detailed Settings.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

Since it's no longer 1990 spaces are ok in filenames. I was poking around in the code to see if I could change the way SageTV names recordings. I noticed that there is a property called "extended_filenames" that when set to "true" tells SageTV to leave all the spaces in and even adds spaces to the dividers.

However, there doesn't appear to be any option to set that property in Detailed Setup.

Personally, I would like to make "extended_filenames=true" be the default option. In this day and age we shouldn't be scared to have spaces in our filenames. For those that don't care for the spaces it would be nice if there was an option in Detailed Settings->Customize to change this option. I'm not familiar with STV programming so I have no idea how to add an option to set a property. I would like some help adding this option to Detailed Settings.

That's a good idea... maybe add an issue to GitHub and maybe someone with STV skills cound find it and fix it.

[Taddeusz]

extended_filenames does more than just simply leaves spaces in. Is it advisable to have both it and allow_unicode_characters_in_generated_filenames set to true? Or does it matter?

Nevermind, looking at the code I answered my own question.

[bcjenkins]

What was the answer?

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

What was the answer?

It doesn't matter. In the code it forks between whether or not you have unicode enabled. Then test in either case if you have extended_filenames enabled.