Help: where is MeteorJS converting foreign characters in file names

[a4xrbj1]

Hi,

Files in the “private” folder will be checked for foreign characters when MeteorJS is running.

An example of such would be the German Umlaute like ä, ü, ö but also ß

They are replaced with an underscore letter in the file name like:

Original: Joachim_Göttel.zip

In MeteorJS: Joachim_G_ttel.zip

Can someone point me to the code where this is happening in MeteorJS? I was trying to convert the file names but every normalization function has failed so far.

Thanks in advance!

[minhna]

I don’t really get the question. You’re saying that Meteor (by default) rename your files in private folder? Or you’re asking to make it happen?

[a4xrbj1]

MeteorJS does it automatically. If you check .meteor/local/build/programs/server/assets/app/ this is the folder where files from private are moved to and being renamed in case a foreign character(s) is used.

Thanks,

Andreas

[minhna]

I have no idea, but I guess it’s somewhere in Meteor tools.

[alimgafar]

@gabsferreira who on the team can help here?

[paulishca]

Hi @a4xrbj1 ,
I think this explains the matter: Load `program.json` using the Unicode Normalization Form of the loaded JSON string by hwillson · Pull Request #7963 · meteor/meteor · GitHub

[a4xrbj1]

Thanks Paul,

this is going in the right direction however the solution posted in that thread still doesn’t produce the same results for me if I use the code:

filename.normalize(‘NFC’).replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9._:-]/g, ‘’);

Original: 37_J_Göttel

Meteor: 37_J_Go_ttel

Normalize code: 37_J_Gttel