Characters Set Support

Nodeum encodes any characters into UTF-8, this for any files and folders managed by the application, either container, primary storages or secondary storages.

UTF-8 encodes each of the 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to four 8-bit bytes.

Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using fewer bytes.

The first 128 characters of Unicode, which correspond one-to-one with ASCII, are encoded using a single octet with the same binary value as ASCII, so that valid ASCII text is valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode as well.

UTF-8 Restrictions

Some special characters of UTF-8 have restrictions:

• “/”and “|” are not allowed in file or folder names

• “%” and “:” cannot be used as a single character file or folder name.

All files or folders encoded with a different set of characters will be encoded with %MNGA182 then HEX of the source name.