Are diacritics in filenames now allowed?

[mr_neffets]

Just a week or so ago, I had to go through a process of renaming a bunch of pdfs because they included diacritics (e.g. á, ü, ç) in the file name and dropbox wouldn't upload them. I accidentally added a file with a diacratic today and it worked. Is this issue finally fixed? I can't find any update news saying this was changed, but it appears to work for me know. Just wanted to double check before I start allowing for them in my filenames again.

[Здравко · Accepted solution]

Hi @mr_neffets,

Unfortunately nothing has been fixed yet. Dropbox support only Basic Multilingual Plane subset of all Unicode code points. 🤷 As far as I know this never changed.

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@mr_neffets wrote:

Just a week or so ago, I had to go through a process of renaming a bunch of pdfs because they included diacritics (e.g. á, ü, ç) in the file name and dropbox wouldn't upload them. ...

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Whatever is reason for your need to rename all pdf-s you mentioned, it's NOT definitely the symbols mentioned! Those symbols code points are:

• á -> U+00E1
• ü -> U+00FC
• ç -> U+00E7

That means, they are part of Latin-1 Supplement, part of Basic Multilingual Plane. Most probably there were other symbol(s) that resides out of supported subset. Just take care to use only supported symbols (or their representations - sometimes same glyph can be represented in different ways/codes). Let's hope some day entire Unicode set will be supported... Let's hope... 🤷 By now Dropbox refuses such support.

Hope this helps.

[Sparkle Muffin]

I have macrons in my filenames that are preventing proper syncing. Macrons are needed for disambiguation of romanized Japanese.

Macrons are supported as part of the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+014D for ō, for example), but they do not work properly in Dropbox syncing.

[Здравко]

Hi @Sparkle Muffin,

I can't add too much, unfortunately. Most probably you have some other incorrect symbol or representation. Macrons are part of Latin Extended-A subset part of Basic Multilingual Plane. I just created a set a test file name using macrons:

... and as can be seen it works. Check some formatting symbols (if you have some) - very often there are some unintentional changes in such places.

Good luck.