an example would be games such as Q*bert or Fate: Gates of Dawn which may have file names like Q-Bert.zip or Fate - Gates of Dawn.zip. right now romm can't find them so you have to manually search with special characters removed. Ideally RomM should be able to replace all UNIX special characters in the file name (such as '-') with whitespace in the search, and recognize that titles that have UNIX special characters will perfectly match files that don't have those special characters.
if the automatic identification is too risky, then at least have manual match do a initial search that strips unix special characters and the extension
also, when renaming there should be an option to convert the name to a unix safe filename
an example would be games such as Q*bert or Fate: Gates of Dawn which may have file names like Q-Bert.zip or Fate - Gates of Dawn.zip. right now romm can't find them so you have to manually search with special characters removed. Ideally RomM should be able to replace all UNIX special characters in the file name (such as '-') with whitespace in the search, and recognize that titles that have UNIX special characters will perfectly match files that don't have those special characters.
if the automatic identification is too risky, then at least have manual match do a initial search that strips unix special characters and the extension
also, when renaming there should be an option to convert the name to a unix safe filename