How to deal with special characters (e.g. colon) in filenames?

[UKenGB]

What does the Plex binding do with special characters?

There's only a few that cannot be used in the filename on a Mac (':' mainly), but how does it affect matching with the on-line databases? Are they just cut altogether, or replaced with a different character or what?

[rednoah]

':' is replaced with ' - ' I think. Replacing one punctuation character with another probably won't affect search. Most search engines focus on words while spaces and punctuation between words generally doesn't matter.

AFAIK the only character that is troublesome is & because people tend to turn 'A & B' into 'A and B' which does give you different results from 'A & B' or 'A B'.