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beatrixwillius
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago
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Unicode encoding conflict for folder with ASCII characters

My app Mail Archiver can export emails to PDFs complete with mailbox structure. A user saves his PDFs to Dropbox. He sent me a screenshot where a folder shows "(Unicode encoding conflict)". As develo...
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    beatrixwillius
    2 years ago

    Found the problem: the mailbox has a space at the end. Sigh... this is embarrassing in 2024.

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beatrixwillius
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

I should have checked the mailbox name before posting. I was able to reproduce the problem myself with the user's data:

 

 I really wish that Dropbox had better unicode support.

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    beatrixwillius
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    Found the problem: the mailbox has a space at the end. Sigh... this is embarrassing in 2024.

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