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Special characters in filename

See original GitHub issue

When uploading files with special characters (e.g. à, é or ö) in the filename, an error message is raised: Error in call to API function "files/upload": HTTP header "Dropbox-API-Arg": could not decode input as JSON.

The dropbox desktop application handles special characters fine. Anybody knows why this isn’t working?

An example project producing the error message can be found at https://github.com/kapersoft/dropbox-sdk-js-special-characters-example

Node version: v6.6.0 Operating system: macOS Sierra 10.12.1 dropbox-sdk-js version: 2.4.0

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

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greg-dbcommented, Feb 1, 2017

This is fixed in v2.5.1.

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greg-dbcommented, Jan 18, 2017

Apologies for the delay. I’ll bring this up with the team again to see if we can get this moving.

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