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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
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
Let's hope restriction "the Dropbox API only supports characters in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane" will be overcome ( https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-Support-Feedback/Czech-diacritics-characters-in-filename/m-p/357... ). There are many other discussions, in this forum, directed to the limited character set used in Dropbox. I wouldn't count them.
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
Let's hope someday full Unicode support will be available.
TonyEnglund
Collaborator | Level 9

I can see some nightmares with this if you want to keep the support for all OS'es 😱

 

It's bad enough on the client side where Macs can use some really weird file names locally which gets "translated" or skipped when syncing with Dropbox.

dvnnyy
New member | Level 2

+1 

TylorSkory
New member | Level 2

I would love to see this happen. iCloud supports all emojis in folder and file names. It offers a lot more customizability and I like the visual element of it!

sp_cekatt
New member | Level 2

This can't happen soon enough. I'll have to switch to a different service provider if unicode support isn't implemented soon.

daydreamuber
Explorer | Level 3

This feature would make a massive difference! Is there a potential workaround? Many applications use dropbox to host files that get synced across devices, and having emojis in folder and file names is a really big part of my and many others' workflows.

RegitzePuck
New member | Level 2

+1

pyrotecx
New member | Level 2

Please support this!

I'm just tried to use Dropbox to sync my Obsidian files and ran into a problem syncing an important file with an emoji in the filename.

 

It's very standard to fully support emojis in 2021.

James V.1
Explorer | Level 4

Please allow this. 

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