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Hey, thanks for trying out mnamer. The first thing I would want to confirm is that the v in ~/.mnamer-V2.json is lowercase, e.g. ~/.mnamer-v2.json. If not that could be your problem.

As far as the installation permission issue is concerned thats probably you're using system Python, the one installed with Arch. Installing mnamer as root isn't usually recommended. It can conflict with other Python packages installed by pacman.

There's a couple of ways to install mnamer without root-level permissions. The easiest is pip install mnamer -U --user. Another alternative that I would recommend is pipx.

Anyway, let me know if that works for you.

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Perfect! renaming the config worked. Thank you for your prompt reply and excellent work.

Excellent, now another question.

How to deal with accent in file name? Is it possible to remove them automatically? i.e. â to be a, é to be e.
And also to remove any !,? etc that stop filename to be readable?

Just had a look at the config file after a show was rename and move missing the & by an extra space. & doesn't stop the filename to be readable on linux, however looking at the config file it is supposed to be replaced by and - and that did not work?

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Yep, it looks like this is an actual bug with the replacements setting. I'll look into getting that sorted, thanks!

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The & being replaced with two spaces bug should be fixed in the next release.

As for your other questions--

• Regarding accents, mnamer currently has no way to remove diacritical marks. This might be something that is added in the future. You could get this to work by manually in the meantime by specifying these transformations using the replace_after configuration but this would probably be tedious.
• Regarding ! and ? characters. Question marks, as with other troublesome characters (e.g. <>:"|?*&%=+@#`^ are currently being stripped. Exclamation points should be readable by all modern operating systems. Either way, now that replacements are working using replace_after you could likewise strip it by adding `"!": "".

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