Allowed characters for file and folder naming
Email subjects, Files and Folder names and Attachment Names may include many types of characters, however there is a limit in size and which characters are allowed:
- Size Limit: All folders and names are set to a Max of 200 characters
- Character Limitation: The following characters are also removed:
/ \ * ? | < > # % ' : " |
- All words finishing with the following characters are not allowed
~ . |
- "non-printables" and "control" characters are removed
These is the list of all allowed characters:
- \p{L} or \p{Letter}: any kind of letter from any language.
- \p{N} or \p{Number}: any kind of numeric character in any script.
- \p{M} or \p{Mark}: a character intended to be combined with another character (e.g. accents, umlauts, enclosing boxes, etc.).
- \p{Sm} or \p{Math_Symbol}: any mathematical symbol.
- \p{Sc} or \p{Currency_Symbol}: any currency sign.
- \p{Sk} or \p{Modifier_Symbol}: a combining character (mark) as a full character on its own.
- \p{P} or \p{Punctuation}: any kind of punctuation character.
- \p{Z} or \p{Separator}: any kind of whitespace or invisible separator.