Simplify non-standard Characters

Some characters may not be compatible with the file names on some file-systems so this option replaces such characters with their simpler equivalent (i.e. é -> e, ℮ ->e and ◀ -> <) if Simplify non-standard characters is enabled. Simplification of file names can make managing your files easier and provide greater compatibility with other applications.

This option is similar to the Convert to ASCII option found in some applications but ASCII only supports a subset of the Latin character set , characters sets such as Chinese, Korean and Arabic cannot be converted to ASCII so we do not try, but we can simplify file names in four main ways.

  1. We simplify Latin char set by removing diacritics such as accents and circumflexes (é -> e)

  2. Sometimes complex characters can be represented as a combined character (NFC) or two different characters (NFD) we always convert NFD to NFC

  3. We simplify unusual representations of letters and numbers such as subscript or superscript (℮ ->e)

  4. We replace symbols and graphic characters with simpler representations ( ◀ -> <)