Unusual characters in short name

Unusual characters are sometimes shown in the short name of a document or folder in the repository.

Examples: ␠, ␛, ␉

Reason

These characters are used in the short name, as blank spaces (or other control characters) were used in the original file name.

These special characters are either not permitted within the short name (various characters), are converted (horizontal tab), or truncated automatically when used in certain places.

To enable these files to synchronize correctly, the original characters are encoded with the corresponding control character (opens new window) from the Unicode standard.

If the original name already contains control characters, they are escaped with the Unicode character.

U+241B/␛ (symbol for escape).

Possible solutions

If these characters should not be shown in the short name, the original file name must be changed so that it does not contain any of these characters:

• Leading or trailing spaces; internal spaces are permitted
• Control characters from the C0 block (U+0000 to U+001F)
• DEL (U+007F)

Information

Please note that spaces at the end of the file are determined by excluding the file extension, as the extension is not saved in the short name.