begin work on daily episodes

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs
index 8e96373f44..4c94f3aa20 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 using System;
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Linq;
 using System.Security.Cryptography;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
@@ -54,6 +56,15 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions
             return sb.ToString();
         }
 
+        public static string RemoveDiacritics(this string text)
+        {
+            return String.Concat(
+                text.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD)
+                .Where(ch => CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(ch) !=
+                                              UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)
+              ).Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets the M d5.
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Plugins/BasePlugin.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/Plugins/BasePlugin.cs
index 1a536b4ffb..ce068463ea 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/Plugins/BasePlugin.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Plugins/BasePlugin.cs
@@ -204,6 +204,10 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Plugins
             {
                 return (TConfigurationType)XmlSerializer.DeserializeFromFile(typeof(TConfigurationType), path);
             }
+            catch (DirectoryNotFoundException)
+            {
+                return (TConfigurationType)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(TConfigurationType));
+            }
             catch (FileNotFoundException)
             {
                 return (TConfigurationType)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(TConfigurationType));