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Emma's avatar
Emma
Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
2 months ago
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Hi folks, great news - this idea is now delivered! 🎉

Dropbox now supports an extended set of characters in filenames including:

😀 Emojis 😀

💬 Chinese, Japanese, Korean scripts 💬

🏄‍♂️ RTL (right-to-left) scripts 🏄‍♂️

Some examples:

  • Project launch 🚀.doc
  • 📚 Budget review.xls
  • Team pics 🐱.zip
  • 𝛑 formula.txt
  • 𩸽.pdf

These names appear the same on dropbox.com, in the Dropbox desktop and mobile apps, and across supported devices. Learn more here.

🙏 Thank you so much for sharing and supporting this idea. 
We hope this helps you and your workflows and would love to hear your feedback! ✨

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20
    2 months ago

    Hi Emma​,

    Great news that Dropbox core starts support full unicode code points!!! 👍 Congratulations! 😉

    I hope it wouldn't take so long (6 more years) to adapt your applications to support sync files named in such a way...??? 🧐

    Currently, when I name on the Dropbox web some file in such a way, the same file disappear locally! The same when I rename some local file - the same file disappear on your web page (and on the Dropbox server of course). 🤷

    I hope this is object of improvement already...

    Have a nice day.

    • radical_exponent's avatar
      radical_exponent
      Icon for Dropbox Engineer rankDropbox Engineer
      2 months ago

      Hi Здравко​ - can you try updating to v234 (the most recent stable just released) and try restarting the client? The desktop client was the last component to get updated for this, and it's possible this was caused by being on an older build (or even perhaps just needing to restart the client after we turned on the desktop client gating, literally yesterday).

      • Здравко's avatar
        Здравко
        Legendary | Level 20
        2 months ago

        Hi radical_exponent​,

        Thanks for nudging me. 😉

        Yes, you are correct, last version supports the provided feature. v234 was not available at the time I posted my last post. That's why I tried to nudge you. 🙂 Fortunately, it was meaningless.

        By the way, v233 and earlier don't support symbols outside basic multilingual plane. I checked v233 (just before previous post of me) and it didn't work! Restart only is NOT enough - I checked!

        Anyway...

        Thank you.