Special Characters in File Names

#1

Hiya

I’ve been running into this minor issue from time to time. Whenever I try to import a file with a name containing special characters, like “ö” for example, Notch refuses to import the file. This also applies if the file is in a structure containing special charachters.

It’s not an issue most of the time, but today it had me scratching my head for a long time. While trying to import a file within a deep file structure where there is a single “é” in the structure. This made Notch refuse my file, and while I can understand to some degree why it doesnt work with the swedish characters that I use, the “é” really threw me off. It would seem like a character used in English from time to time, right?

Anyway, is this something that would be easy to fix?

#2

Notch Builder is currently reliant on ASCII characters, so doesn’t support unicode characters in file names - it’s something we are solving in the next major release.

Slight tangent, but é is not used in standard English. It occasionally appears in loan words (e.g résumé), but they are just words we’ve stolen from other languages.

– Ryan

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