[ ] iOS – not tested
[x] Android
Steps to reproduce:
? character, e.g. WTF is Time?
Unable to rename, unknown reason:Thank you for your excellent work.
That’s a forbidden character. It may work on some OSes but not on all (on Windows it’s forbidden), and I think it’s also an illegal character for Obsidian sync for this reason.
Also, there is a problem when doing sync of notes with the ? character…
Hi - is there a list of invalid characters somewhere? Most of the notes one my vaults were created elsewhere, I should probably check them.
Thanks
I did find this:
In the forum, I learned the following trick:
To use the ？character instead of the (normal) ?
(try to copy-paste them, they are different)
I think ideally Obsidian would do sensible escaping behind the scenes, so that users can use whatever characters they like in their note titles.
Personally, I often want to use the : and / characters.
It seems as though the “=>” character in a note title broke Obsidian Sync for Android. The sync log showed a FILE_NOTCREATED error and then no further output, despite there being many more notes still to sync.
I’m seeing that there are a bunch of characters that I can put in note titles on Obsidian for Mac without getting a warning, but which trigger a FILE_NOTCREATED error on Android. Another example is double quotation mark (").
I guess this is all due to filesystem constraints, but as I said, I think the ideal solution would be for Obsidian to escape filenames. I’m not sure how practical that is.
I guess another option would be to store the note title in the note itself (rather than the filename) but I guess that raises portability issues, and also backwards compatibility issues. The backwards compatibility issue could be addressed by making this an optional feature. Hmm. 
Ah cool, it sounds like the “sync gets stuck due to invalid filename” issue will be patched in the next release:
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