You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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 cont...
billgdbx
Dropbox Engineer
Dropbox EngineerAlas, 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.