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seizo
9 years agoHelpful | Level 6
File name written with Multi-byte code
At first, this writing contains multi-byte charactors. So, you might unable to read some charactors correctly. Let's see. I'm trying to get the file-list from my Dropbox using Dropbox API. The ...
- 9 years ago
How are you printing this output? The API itself should be be returning valid escaped unicode characters where applicable. I just tried it myself using the filenames you supplied, and I'm seeing these pieces of raw output, for the respective file names (using curl):
"name": "u3042u3044u3046.txt"
"name": "\u3042\u3044\u3046.txt"
The first one is the plain text file name, and the second is the encoded unicode file name.
- 9 years ago
I've found a wrong process in my program.
The process has been removing escape codes "\" from the data.I appreciate you for the kind advice. <(_ _)>
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
9 years agoHow are you printing this output? The API itself should be be returning valid escaped unicode characters where applicable. I just tried it myself using the filenames you supplied, and I'm seeing these pieces of raw output, for the respective file names (using curl):
"name": "u3042u3044u3046.txt"
"name": "\u3042\u3044\u3046.txt"
The first one is the plain text file name, and the second is the encoded unicode file name.
- seizo9 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I've found a wrong process in my program.
The process has been removing escape codes "\" from the data.I appreciate you for the kind advice. <(_ _)>
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