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Accents in plain txt files incorrectly displayed
I saved some accented and umlauted characters in a plain txt file using mac with UTF-8 encoding under a dropbox folder, and when opening it using dropbox in a browser or on an ios dropbox app, the acccented characters are incorrectly displyed, i.e. ignroed or replaced with something wierd. Conversely when I saved a plain txt file with accents using ios dropbox app, the plain text file opens in Mac Textedit with incorrect accents. Is there a way to set the plain text file so that accents and umlauts are interepreted correctly on both my Mac and dropbox app/online viewing through a browser?
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
I too am having the same issue, it was a file in plain text .txt format with passwords which broke because special characters were being changed to HTML entities like & into & and < into <
Dropbox can you advise has this been fixed?
- Walter
Hi DiversityStudio; welcome to the Community.
Just to make sure we're troubleshooting the right thing here, could you elaborate on the issue you described providing screenshots of how the mentioned file looks like on our website and how it looks like when downloaded and opened locally on your device(s)?
Thanks a bunch!
Hi Walter,
Yes I can elaborate, we created some plain text files .txt for passwords and when viewed on phone app or local desktop the special characters are correct but when viewed on a web browsers some characters are being rendered as their HTML entities for instance & as & and > as > which when we copy the password to be used to login somewhere it is wrong because of the changed characters
Screenshot on desktop/app all OK
Screenshot on Dropbox in web browser
Notice & and not just &
Also looking at the source HTML it has been changed to HTML entities, does this help you to shed some light? I was hoping plain text files should not be formatted and just outputted as plain text only.
Also this was OK for weeks as I have been copying from a web browser view and it was only yesterday this happened.
