Auto transcoding of illegal platform specific characters in file names

[rasa (Ross Smith II)]

I’ve been using a local build for the last couple of years that “transcodes” as you describe. See

Reserved filenames/symlinks/case-sensitive syncing on Windows

Here’s a proof of concept you all might enjoy seeing. I used this folder dialog: [2026-03-28_13-16-53-firefox-bala__Syncthing_—_Mozilla_Firefox] (built from merge/9539-9623-9266-tbd1-and-8002), to sync all files in https://github.com/rasa/git-os-test from a Linux system, to a Windows 11 system (except for ‘a-backslash\’). Here’s a listing of the synced directory in a Git-Bash shell on Windows: [2026-03-28_13-10-25-cmd-dtestgit-os-test] The four feature branches that comprise this work are…