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Use of emojis in filenames

Open soegaard opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

The test file 🤔.flac contains an emoji in the file name.

This causes Dropbox to generate sync errors when the repo is synced (at least on macOS) probably also elsewhere.

I hope, the file can be renamed.

The full path:

https://github.com/xiph/flac/blob/master/test/flac-to-flac-metadata-test-files/%F0%9F%A4%94.flac

Problem originally reported here:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/13539

soegaard avatar Mar 31 '25 09:03 soegaard

I think this is actually a dropbox problem. A service that still cannot handle Unicode correctly is seriously broken in my opinion.

The naming is deliberate, so I'd like to keep it this way.

ktmf01 avatar Apr 02 '25 19:04 ktmf01

The problem is definitely a Dropbox problem.

It turns out that Dropbox can handle some emojis in filenames, but not others. Is it possible to change the emoji to a different one?

https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/101001014/dropbox-not-syncing-files-with-emojis-in-the-filename/263856

soegaard avatar Apr 02 '25 19:04 soegaard

You could put together a PR. I'd like to spend my devtime on other issues.

ktmf01 avatar Jun 08 '25 18:06 ktmf01