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Klaus A.'s avatar
Klaus A.
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago

Umlauts in file names

Hi, I am using the v2 API for http. What I found is that if a file or folder name contains a special character, like a German Umlaut like ä, I get a 400 error on upload and download. Is this a bug? 

During download the response text is "Error in call to API function "files/download": HTTP header "Dropbox-API-Arg": could not decode input as JSON".

During upload the response text is "Error in call to API function "files/upload": HTTP header "Dropbox-API-Arg": could not decode input as JSON".

 

Seems like there's a bug in the JSON.parse() function on DropBox's side. The same JSON stringified text with an umlaut in the file name will parse just fine in the browsers I tested.

 

 

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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    8 years ago

    Abhishek3881000 Here's an example of how you might do this in Java, using Jackson:

    JsonFactory f = ...
JsonGenerator g = f.createGenerator(...);
g.setHighestNonEscapedChar(0x7E);

     

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