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Enable Emoji in file names.

Enable Emoji in file names.

Link1328
New member | Level 2

I use emoji’s to help me find things quicker.  I would like to add an emoji from the apple keyboard to the file folder name but when I click on rename and add the emoji it says “invalid folder name...the folder name contains invalid characters”.  Here is an example I wish to change “Vehicles and DOT” folder to say           “:automobile:Vehicle and DOT” 

25 Comments
molinan2
Explorer | Level 3

+1 to full Unicode support.

 

I'm syncing thousands of files and some of them contain special characters. Many of those files were created by external programs (for instance, saving a webpage as PDF for later) and I'm being forced to update eeevery title because of this.

 

I had no problem with iCloud, which just allows you to upload "anything you can have in you disk", as expected.

Danila S.
Explorer | Level 4

I've run into this issue trying to sync an Obsidian vault. And, by the way, using emojis is a really nice way to sort your stuff! It's unbelievable that this is still not supported in 2021.

Will probably have to use another cloud storage to sync Obsidian vaults, and then, maybe, everything else as I plan to use emojis more actively.

nick_riches
Explorer | Level 4

Can I support this wholeheartedly? I'm using a next-generation note-taking app which stores notes as markdown files (Logseq - check it out, it's amazing, but there's also Roam Research and Obsidian, which work in a similar way). I would like to use emojis for note titles. This greatly improves my organisation. I just cannot get this to work in dropbox, due to the failure to sync files with emojis in the filenames. Please implement this, Dropbox. If you do a bit of research on Logseq, Roam, and Obsidian (I think Joplin notes is also another one), you will find that these types of apps are really taking off, and many users have a preference to use emojis in filenames. If this is not implemented soon, I am going to have to consider migrating to Google Drive for my note-syncing.

Walter
Dropbox Staff

Thank you for your idea, while we can’t take every idea forward we do regularly re-review and will update you if anything changes!

Status changed to: Not for right now
DeirdreH
New member | Level 2

:hundred_points:

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