[Owncloud] special characters in filenames

Evert Pot evert at rooftopsolutions.nl
Thu Aug 2 15:03:15 UTC 2012


> Because Windows doesn't normalize, it means that two files with different (but very similar) names will be normalized to a single filename on HTFS+ filesystems. Lastly.. the normalization form OS/X uses, actually behave buggy on windows when I checked it (granted, this was Windows XP).
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> I've never faced such issue in Windows. (I assume you mean NTFS). Maybe this is too remote possibility to consider?

The issue appears on the sync client actually.. 

It means that there's a chance of issues when you sync files from Windows to OS/X, or in reverse. Both operating systems do things slightly differently. (Linux just says 'whatever').

Evert




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