Re: nstmp folders in SMPmw118?

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:31:02 UTC, Christer Jacobsson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dave Yeo wrote:
> > Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> >> As Salaam Aleikum!
> >>
> >> She runs SMPmW118 as Her mailer and under the mail account is the usual
> >> Inbox, Sent, Junk and Saved messages folders, but there also exist a
> >> host of nstmp folders which now contains thousands of messages,
> >> totalling over 200Mib of data. Is it safe for Her to just delete these
> >> nstmp folder or would it hurt the mailer in any way?
> > 
> > Generally you can delete them, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Nstmp_folders
> > Dave
> 
> Thanks! But She has a small question some Scandinavian members of this 
> ng reads and it is this: The Swedish alphabet has three tail-end 
> characters namely '†', '„Ž' and '”™'. They are treated as special 
> characters whether the codepage She uses is 437 or 850, and they DON't 
> sort properly:

If she used the Swedish code page things would sort properly and there would 
not be a problem.  Since she wishes to use another code page she needs to do 
something that makes sense to her.


> if She have three files named .txt, Ž.txt and ™.txt and 
> does a DIR against them with the 'dir ?.txt', they will show up as 
> Ž,txt, .txt and ™.txt. So when She retrieves Swedish tunes via Youtube 
> of from a Swedish CD with a Swedish title, She want to transliterate 
> these pesky tail-end characters to 'normal' characters, but which would 
> be the best transliteration?

The best translation is the one she prefers.  The way I or someone else would 
do it is of no use to her.  She needs to do what makes sense to her in her 
computer environment.


> Currently She uses 'aa' for '†', 'ae' for 
> '„' and 'oe' for '”'. So a music track from Fr”ken Elvis album 'Elvis p† 
> svenska / Elvis in Swedish' would be created like this: 
> Froeken_Elvis-Aelska_mig.mp3 (Love Me Tender is the basis for this cover 
> tune). Note also the use of the '-' and '_' separator characters: the 
> underscore is the separator between the artist(s) name and the song 
> title while the '_' is the separator in the artist's name if it is a 
> multiword name and also in the name of the tune if it's a multiword 
> name. When fetching & converting tunes from Youtube, the file name 
> suggested nearly always contains space characters, and if they are 
> retained the file name will be enclosed with the "<file name'" combo. 
> Replacing the space characters with '-' and '_' in their appropriate 
> places makes the file name a regular one which don't have these pesky " 
> chars before and after the file name, making the handling of the file, 
> for example renaming, much easier.


-- 
Robert Blair

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