I'm not really understanding your process. Does Tag Edit rename your files? If not, then how does [Filename] end up with missing characters?
Why aren't you using MC to edit your tags and rename your files?
Finally, for cross platform file names, you really do want to remove the diacritical characters from the file names on disk. This guarantees the most compatibility.
Brian.
Dear Brian,
you answered Hans but my difficulties with MC are the same.
There are no missing characters. MC changes diacritical characters and males an "ä" "á", "à"... to "a " (a simple a and an empty space).
If I import files with diacritical characters to MC, Mac does the same and translates all diacritical characters to a letter and an empty space), "Vänskä" to "Va nska ".
Neither a search for Vänskä or Vanska will find the file in MC.
Compatibility is not important for me. I want the words and expressions as they are.
I am only working on Mac and if I am exchanging files with others (very often) I change or remove diacritical characters.
I am often using another program (Metadatics) for tagging because it has much more possibilities to change filenames, adding numbers or additions to the name of every file or selected files of an imported folder and much more things which are important for me, make life with music and files easier and that is not possible in MC.
For years now I use the same method to name files: I am writing "_" between the words. For example: "Cosi_ROH1998_2_13 Per pietà"
That's possible to write and is correctly read and displayed by all audio programs I have - WaveLab, iZotope, Fission, Audition, Metadatics, Apple Music -
save MC. Only if I write the tags in MC as above and save the tags from library it reads the names correctly but not from Metadatics or WaveLab.
MC reads them as "Cosi ROH1998 2 13 Per pieta ".
Frank