Automatic Renaming?

I appreciate your answer, that clears things up!

I checked out the links you posted and have tried messing around with the bit of code from your FAQ and the following bit of code from the other link you posted:

function replaceAccent($string, $replacement = '_')
{
    $alnumPattern = '/^[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+$/';

    if (preg_match($alnumPattern, $string)) {
        return $string;
    }

    $ret = array_map(
        function ($chr) use ($alnumPattern, $replacement) {
            if (preg_match($alnumPattern, $chr)) {
                return $chr;
            } else {
                $chr = @iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $chr);
                if (strlen($chr) == 1) {
                    return $chr;
                } elseif (strlen($chr) > 1) {
                    $ret = '';
                    foreach (str_split($chr) as $char2) {
                        if (preg_match($alnumPattern, $char2)) {
                            $ret .= $char2;
                        }
                    }
                    return $ret;
                } else {
                    // replace whatever iconv fail to convert by something else
                    return $replacement;
                }
            }
        },
        str_split($string)
    );

    return implode($ret);
}

But I can’t seem to figure out how to make it work. I’m not very experienced in this kind of stuff, so I was just taking some stabs in the dark. I would appreciate any direction you might be able to give as to how to implement these two, or even if the bit of code I posted here is the right thing to use.

Thanks again for your help!

Thanks again for your answer.

I tried exactly what you said, but unfortunately nothing changed. I still don’t have the option to rename the accented characters. I thought maybe it was just the replaceAccent() function that wasn’t working, so I did a quick search and tried about 10 other bits of code that claimed to do the same thing, but none of them worked. I’m not sure if I’m missing something, doing something wrong, or if none of these bits of code that I’ve found actually work, as this is fairly foreign to me, so I’m not sure where to go from here.

This is exactly what I used, in my themes functions.php file:

function replaceAccent($string, $replacement = '_')
{
    $alnumPattern = '/^[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+$/';

    if (preg_match($alnumPattern, $string)) {
        return $string;
    }

    $ret = array_map(
        function ($chr) use ($alnumPattern, $replacement) {
            if (preg_match($alnumPattern, $chr)) {
                return $chr;
            } else {
                $chr = @iconv('UTF8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $chr);
                if (strlen($chr) == 1) {
                    return $chr;
                } elseif (strlen($chr) > 1) {
                    $ret = '';
                    foreach (str_split($chr) as $char2) {
                        if (preg_match($alnumPattern, $char2)) {
                            $ret .= $char2;
                        }
                    }
                    return $ret;
                } else {
                    // replace whatever iconv fail to convert by something else
                    return $replacement;
                }
            }
        },
        str_split($string)
    );

    return implode($ret);
}

add_filter( 'mfrh_new_filename', 'my_anti_accent_filter', 10, 3 );

function my_anti_accent_filter( $new, $old, $post ) {
  return replaceAccent( $new );
}

If I bought the pro version, would I be able to manually go through each image with accented characters and replace them by hand? Would they then be updated in the database and all references in posts and pages?

Thanks again for your help.

Hi there,

I sent an email about a week ago, and then sent another a few days after, but have received no response. Did you get my emails?

I think for now I’ll just buy the pro version and start manually renaming, but like I said, I have lots of files to do so it would be nice if I could get the automatic renaming to work, just to save me time.

Thanks for your time.