The Organize Punctuations cleaner performs several tasks related to the cleaning of file names for purely aesthetic reasons. Although other cleaners perform some similar tasks, it is useful for file name cleaning in a Mac-only environment.

If Remove Characters Outside Normal Mac Range is checked, characters with ASCII values below 32 or above 216 will be removed from file names. These are characters which do not display in the standard font Geneva.

If Exchange Ordinary "Quotes" for Smart “Quotes” is checked, single (') and double (") quote marks will be intelligently smartened into curly quotes. This is purely for aesthetic reasons.

If Apply Padding Spaces around Punctuation Marks is checked, punctuation marks such as comma, period, brackets, colon, etc... will be spaced intelligently with regard to the characters around them. If Exclude Marks next to Numbers and in Dates is checked, this will not apply to punctuation marks next to numbers (e.g. 1+2+3 or 3/5/97). If Exclude These Punctuation Marks is checked, punctuation marks in the adjoining field will not be padded.

Although this cleaner is very rarely used nowadays, NameCleaner was originally designed for applications such as this and so the capability has been left in place.

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