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Adam B.
7 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Problem with special charachters in Company name
I'm working on an internal production tool for our company. And for that I need to compare some local files inside the Dropbox folder with the files synced to Dropbox (to at least try to prevent som ...
- 7 years ago
It sounds like the different strings you're trying to use have different normalization forms, and so they aren't equivalent. You should probably normalize them before comparing them, such as covered here for Node.js. Hope this helps!
Adam B.
7 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Okey I've digged a bit deeper into this. It seems like Dropbox have interpreted the "ö" in "Sjöfartstidningen" (our company) as o + "¨" (well not really ¨ but a similar char) separateley. Which equals "o\u0308", instead I would expect "\u00f6".
I've got this from https://www.branah.com/unicode-converter
But this doesn't make me any smarter...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
7 years agoIt sounds like the different strings you're trying to use have different normalization forms, and so they aren't equivalent. You should probably normalize them before comparing them, such as covered here for Node.js. Hope this helps!
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