There is a character named İ in Turkish alphabet. If I use them on file or folder name, syncing doesn’t work and I get this error message;
2025-12-19 23:17:59: Aborted scan of path ‘Notes/İnceleme.md’ due to an unexpected error: file does not exist
I know some characters forbidden some systems. But this character is not one of them. And I can create file and folder using `İ` letter my mac and android device.
Are there any solution for this?
OK, I see. There’s some funkiness here in how either Syncthing or macOS handles the normalisation. One of these work, the other doesn’t:
% ls
İnceleme.md İnceleme.md2
ls | hd
00000000 c4 b0 6e 63 65 6c 65 6d 65 2e 6d 64 0a 49 cc 87 |..nceleme.md.I..|
00000010 6e 63 65 6c 65 6d 65 2e 6d 64 32 0a |nceleme.md2.|
One is how a file is created by the shell (İ is c4 b0), the other is how it’s created by a GUI program like Finder (İ is 49 cc 87)… The marvels of a filesystem that on the one hand cares about normalisation and on the other doesn’t enforce it. I bet the problem is that one or the other isn’t handled properly in case insensitivity (i.e. what a lower case İ is exactly). We have a unit test for precisely that in Syncthing if I remember correctly…
We at least tried to do the right thing 
I understand the source of the problem. In this situation I must use i letter for instead İ letter. I wish there is a better solution for this. Thanks for helping. Have a good day.
Turkish İ strikes again. If any of you want to learn more about this. https://sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237
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