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DJ V.2
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7 months ago
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Enable emoji and special characters in file names

 

Hi guys, not sure if anyone else needs files with odd characters / emoji in the filename synced.

 

Surely this could be a thing now...  OneDrive allows it, Google allows it.

I'm not in control of a lot of the files so "simply rename your files" isn't an option.

What are the chances of this actually happening some time soon?  I think i would benefit many

 

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    We've been actively working on this improvement here.  I can't share ETAs but wanted to let you know we're on it.

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    7 months ago

    @billgdbx 

     

    thank you so much for acknowledging.  I know you can't give ETA's but are these things typically stuff that gets actioned?  and if they do is it weeks or years typically?

     

    thanks for your time

     

     

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    5 months ago

    hi again guys, any news on this feature at all? 

     

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    5 months ago

    Alas, nothing too definitive; I wish I had more encouraging news.  There is some upcoming work being done to support some of the characters seen in, e.g., Mac filenames which cannot be expressed on, e.g., Windows;  but that is not the full-on "support anything in a filename" that I think you're inquiring about.  (I'll take the bullet:  I had the impression that this work would support what you were asking about, but I was wrong.)

     

    Full-on "support all the things in a name everywhere" is quite a bit more invasive as it needs at its core a character set upgrade in our underlying systems, and then plumbing through the rest of our code to support that more extensive character set.  I'd characterize it as envisioned-but-not-imminent.