UTF8 characters in windows 10 file explorer not displaying correctly

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I have a Dropbox folder which I sync between Linux and Windows 10. If I create a file with a special character like ä on Windows it is encoded as UTF16 and displays correctly on Linux. If I create a file with the same character on Linux it is encoded as UTF8 and does not display correctly in the file explorer on windows, but instead as ä.

Can I somehow get Windows file explorer to correctly display UTF8 characters in filenames?

David

Posted 2017-02-09T12:05:02.857

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Are your Linux locale settings correct? That is, does Dropbox know it is running on a system with foo_BAR.UTF-8 locale and not the default ASCII one? – user1686 – 2017-02-09T13:10:44.343

This is a windows problem if the file is shown correctly on Linux. – Rinzwind – 2017-02-10T10:43:56.270

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