Rename files with non-English characters

[ReaderGuy42]

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Obsidian v1.6.7
Linux Mint 22
Shellcommands 0.22.0

What shell are you using?

Bash

Please describe the problem

Hi again, still absolutely love your plugin.

I use it to convert Obsidian files to LaTeX files to PDf files which works perfectly. I'm not actually having a bug with the plugin, but I'm struggling to create a new shell script. I've now started working with some non-English sources, that in this case include German letters ä, ö, ü, and ß. Obsidian doesn't have a problem with it, but either LaTeX or Latexmk which I use to convert the .md to .tex to .pdf does.

I could probably troubleshoot that, but at this point I'd rather just create a little script to replace the Umlauts and ß with ae, oe, etc.

I think {{event_title}} is what I'm looking for, in the events of File created, File renamed, Folder created, Folder renamed, which I've activated.
However, I don't understand how to use this.

I'm playing around with this command now:

sed -e 's/ä/ae/g' -e 's/ö/oe/g' -e 's/ü/ue/g' -e 's/Ä/Ae/g' -e 's/Ö/Oe/g' -e 's/Ü/Ue/g' -e 's/ß/ss/g' {{event_title}}

But that's interrupting the file creation and before I can give the file a name I get this error, and always just calls the file "Untitled"

Then when I rename the file afterwards I get this error:

Any advice appreciated!!
Thanks :)

[Taitava]

Hi! First of all, sorry for my absence!

If you still have this problem, could it be that the file is not found because the shell command is missing the .md file extension? To fix this, you could use {{event_file_name}} instead of {{event_title}}, as the former variable includes file extension. So, your shell command would become:

sed -e 's/ä/ae/g' -e 's/ö/oe/g' -e 's/ü/ue/g' -e 's/Ä/Ae/g' -e 's/Ö/Oe/g' -e 's/Ü/Ue/g' -e 's/ß/ss/g' {{event_file_name}}

Does this help? 🙂