distinguishing between languages

[rolopho]

Hello,

I was wondering if Hazel can distinguish alphabetic languages from non-alphabetic ones?

I would like to sort files that start with a letter, number or symbol (like %, ', etc.) into certain folders, and files that start with a Japanese character, either from the phonetic script or from the set of Chinese characters into one folder.

At the moment, I can sort the files that start with the alphanumeric, etc. characters into folders that start with that character. The Japanese/Chinese character named files are also sorted into folders starting with their first character.

Is there there a way to sort the Japanese files into one folder? Otherwise I will end up with many folders since there are thousands of Chinese characters used in Japanese.

Thanks!

[a_freyer]

Not by default, no.

But I think this is an interesting problem. I would suggest writing a bash script to convert the name to unicode, and determining if the letters are within the japanese unicode range (e.g., 3000+).