songy

commit 6b2f3c5607b17ea4e69a22989ccb801a0525ce88
parent f6f1a08b4bd482d6d443b3969907a14cc2f6edf0
Author: devnibo <kroekerrobin@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:54:01 +0200

Avoid 'tr' in script for unicode support

The GNU tr program lacks support for multibyte
characters. That's what I've read and experienced.

Diffstat:
M
prepare_for_search.sh
 | 
4
+++-

1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/prepare_for_search.sh b/prepare_for_search.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 # $1 is the folder of chordpro files
 
 shrink() {
-	echo "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -d "\n,%!?:()'\"\`’‘ "
+	# echo "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -d "\n,%!?:()'\"\`’‘ "
+	# 'tr' doesn't handle multi byte characters well
+	echo "$1" | awk '{ print tolower($0) }' | sed "s/[(\^$),%!?:()'\"\`’‘ ]//g" | tr -d "\n"
 }
 
 for filename in "$1/"*.cho;