Replacement characters

[devster]

Just a small thread to share replacement characters for titles and series names.

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def norm = { it.replaceAll(/[:]/, "\u2236") // "∶" Ratio symbol
               .replaceAll(/[:]/, "\uFF1A") // "：" Fullwidth Colon
               .replaceAll(/[:]/, "\uFE55") // "﹕" Small Colon
               .replaceAll("/", "\u29F8") // "⧸" Big Solidus
               .replaceAll("/", "\u2215") // "∕" Division Slash
               .replaceAll("/", "\u2044") // "⁄" Fraction Slash
               .replaceAll(/[?]/, "\uFE56") // "﹖" Small Question Mark
           }
// remove or comment the ones you don't want

Character appearance may vary depending on your font, in some cases fonts may not have a particular character.

[rednoah]

Do we want a built-in convenience method for this operation?

How TF should I name this method!?

[devster]

I don't believe it's necessary, there already are the .colon and .slash methods (which I forgot above), the rest can be done with a replaceAll.
In any case a possible name could be "pathsub" or "substitute".

[rednoah]

I guess it's just 3 replacements for now, and that can be expressed with little code already:

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'Test: A / ?'.replace(
	':':'∶',
	'/':'∕',
	'?':'﹖'
)

Let's leave it at that for now. Mainly because I can't come up with a good method name.