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 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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- billgdbx
Dropbox Engineer
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.
hi again guys, any news on this feature at all?
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That is great news billgdbx!
It will be very much appreciated by both Dropbox and Boxifier users.
Thanks,
Razvan
- billgdbxStatus changed:Gathering SupporttoInvestigating
We've been actively working on this improvement here. I can't share ETAs but wanted to let you know we're on it.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
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