Strip emojis from filenames on Windows (#222)

2021-03-27 21:14:08 +10:00
parent 20f525bd0d
commit f2946c0a87
2 changed files with 18 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/bulkredditdownloader/file_name_formatter.py
+++ b/bulkredditdownloader/file_name_formatter.py
@@ -96,4 +96,10 @@ class FileNameFormatter:
        invalid_characters = r'<>:"\/|?*'
        for char in invalid_characters:
            input_string = input_string.replace(char, '')
+        input_string = FileNameFormatter._strip_emojis(input_string)
        return input_string
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _strip_emojis(input_string: str) -> str:
+        result = input_string.encode('ascii', errors='ignore').decode('utf-8')
+        return result