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Add note for Windows users about crappy Unicode support :'(
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keithfancher committed Jan 11, 2024
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+ [How is this different from [bulk-rename tool X]?](#how-is-this-different-from-bulk-rename-tool-x)
+ [What about FileBot?](#what-about-filebot)
+ [Sonarr/Radarr?](#sonarrradarr)
+ [I use Windows and I'm getting "invalid character" errors](#i-use-windows-and-im-getting-invalid-character-errors)


## Quickstart / Demo
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functionality they provide. But they are *way* overkill for my needs. To
install software like this simply to pull API data and rename files is... too
much! (For me, at least.)

### I use Windows and I'm getting "invalid character" errors

Windows support for Unicode in the command-line is dicey. See the ["Important
note for Windows users!"](https://github.com/keithfancher/kept#important-note-for-windows-users)
section in the readme for `kept`, another tool of mine, for a workaround.
See also [this StackOverflow
post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49476326/displaying-unicode-in-powershell/49481797#49481797)
for more details.

In the future, I also intend to add an option to limit filenames to the [Portable Filename Character
Set](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_282),
which will be handy for this and other reasons.

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