Title: Filenames to latin
Author: webvitalii
Published: <strong>November 2, 2011</strong>
Last modified: August 9, 2020

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Filenames to latin

 By [webvitalii](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webvitaly/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/filenames-to-latin.2.7.zip)

 * [Details](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/filenames-to-latin/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/filenames-to-latin/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/filenames-to-latin/#installation)
 * [Development](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/filenames-to-latin/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/filenames-to-latin/)

## Description

 * **[WordPress Pro plugins](http://web-profile.net/wordpress/plugins/)**
 * **[Filenames to latin](http://web-profile.net/wordpress/plugins/filenames-to-latin/)**
 * **[Donate](http://web-profile.net/donate/)**
 * **[GitHub](https://github.com/webvitalii/filenames-to-latin)**

Plugin sanitizes Cyrillic (Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian), German, French, Polish,
Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Greek, Swedish, Finnish, Latvian, Estonian, Mongolian,
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin and other filenames to latin characters 
during upload.
 Plugin converts filenames to lowercase automatically.

#### List of sanitizing letters:

а б в г д е ж з и й к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ь ю я ґ є і ї ё ы ъ э ў ą ć 
ę ł ń ó ś ź ż à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö × ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ ß 
ő ű ě š č ř ž ý á é ď ť ň ú ů α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω ά 
έ ή ί ό ύ ώ ς ΐ ϊ ϋ ΰ đ.

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 * [“Iframe” – embed content](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/)
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## Screenshots

[⌊filenames converted without and with the plugin⌉⌊filenames converted without and
with the plugin⌉[

filenames converted without and with the plugin

## Installation

 1. Install plugin and activate it on the Plugins page
 2. Now your media filenames will be sanitized to latin automatically

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Very useful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-2126/)󠁿

 [norbou](https://profiles.wordpress.org/norbou/) January 20, 2020

Great plugin. Everybody can extend character set by own easily. Thanks to the author,
I have this plugin on all my websites.

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### 󠀁[Does not handle some character sets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-handle-some-character-sets/)󠁿

 [Tomas Eklund](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tomas-eklund/) April 24, 2018 1 reply

I'm sorry to be the first to not give this plugin a 5-star rating. However, it appears
that the plugin does not always sanitize the filenames of uploaded files. From my
own experience, and by looking at the still open (1+ year old) support threads, 
it seems that the plugin does not handle files coming from OSX. Perhaps other OS'es
are affected too. I've installed the plugin on many sites and now I see that on 
some sites there are hundreds of images with weird characters making them appear
broken in many browsers. Trying to clean the mess up after the fact will be a tedious
and boring job. Unfortunately, this plugin cannot be relied upon. This plugin goes
through the effort of trying to map accented characters to ANSI counterparts, which
is very nice. It's much better than just wiping them all out. However, in those 
cases when the conversion fails the offending characters are left untouched. This
is very bad. It would have been better if a final cleanup would just remove the "
bad" characters from the file names, like some posters in the support forum have
suggested.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great! Skvělé!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-skvele/)󠁿

 [pavelpes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pavelpes/) August 4, 2017

Konečně jsem našel plug-in, který zabrání mršit web klientům, kteří pořád nahrávají
fotky s diakritikou. Wordpress si s nimi poradí, ale při migraci na jiný hosting
všechny soubory s českým názvem, zmizí… Moc děkuji autorovi Finally, I found a plug-
in that prevents the Web site's clients from still recording accented names of photos.
Wordpress will handle them, but when migrating to another hosting, all files with
a Czech name will disappear … Thank you very much to the author

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### 󠀁[Plugin Must Have!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-must-have/)󠁿

 [Rafał Bieleniewicz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bielen2k/) July 26, 2017 1 
reply

To jedna z podstawowych wtyczek które moim zdaniem powinno się posiadać. Dzięki 
niej nie pojawiają się problemy dotyczące polskich znaków w nazwach plików. Wystarczy
instalacja i aktywacja. To jeden z moich ulubionych pluginów 🙂

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/590d13e6080cd8a03be73780509610eb9cb7c29f912b932f6a9359fe523a4947?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Keeps filenames pretty](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keeps-filenames-pretty/)󠁿

 [madis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/madis/) October 24, 2016

Also, it prevents issues if names contain non-Latin characters.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Setup and forget. Works great.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setup-and-forget-works-great/)󠁿

 [Combinatix](https://profiles.wordpress.org/combinatix/) September 3, 2016

What else to say?

 [ Read all 14 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/filenames-to-latin/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Filenames to latin” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ webvitalii ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webvitaly/)

[Translate “Filenames to latin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/filenames-to-latin)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/filenames-to-latin/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/filenames-to-latin/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/filenames-to-latin/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/filenames-to-latin/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.7

 * Fixed Hungarian language (thanks to foldesistudio – https://foldesistudio.hu/)
 * Refactored Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, German languages

#### 2.6 – 2018-11-02

 * Added special character used in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin languages(
   thanks to Apsolut – https://profiles.wordpress.org/apsolut )

#### 2.5 – 2016-11-17

 * Added support for Mongolian language (thanks to Jeremy Skelton)
 * Added support for Slovak language (thanks to Corneliuscz)
 * Bugfixing and adding new special chars

#### 2.4 – 2016-10-20

 * Added support for Estonian language (thanks to Madis – https://profiles.wordpress.
   org/madis )

#### 2.3 – 2016-10-16

 * Added support for Latvian language (thanks to Degi)

#### 2.2 – 2016-06-05

 * Added support for Finnish language (thanks to Subsup – https://wordpress.org/
   support/profile/subsup )
 * Minor refactoring

#### 2.1 – 2016-03-18

 * Minor changes and code refactoring
 * Published plugin to GitHub

#### 2.0 – 2014-01-30

 * rewrite the plugin’s code completely
 * combine 2 arrays of letters into 1 associative array for easier updating
 * add exceptions for some languages
 * added Swedish letters (thanks to Leah – https://wordpress.org/support/profile/
   gezan )

#### 1.8 – 2014-01-08

 * added Greek letters (thanks to senortiago)

#### 1.7 – 2013-07-24

 * minor changes

#### 1.6 – 2013-03-02

 * added Czech letters (thanks to Jiri)

#### 1.5 – 2013-01-13

 * fixed German letters (thanks to Bjoern)

#### 1.4 – 2012-10-31

 * minor changes

#### 1.3

 * added Hungarian letters

#### 1.2

 * converting filenames to lowercase automatically

#### 1.1

 * added Belorussian, German, Polish, Spanish and many other letters

#### 1.0

 * initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.7**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **9,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.5.23**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/filenames-to-latin/)
 * Tags
 * [cyrillic](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cyrillic/)[filename](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/filename/)
   [media](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/)[sanitize](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sanitize/)
   [upload](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/upload/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/filenames-to-latin/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ webvitalii ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webvitaly/)

## Support

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