Supported non-ASCII and special characters in Hue

Auto-generated files may often introduce non-alphanumeric characters in the file and directory names that Hue does not support. This might cause the files or directories to not appear on the Hue File Browser. Review the list of non-alphanumeric, non-ASCII, diacritics (accents) characters supported in Hue for the following operations: upload, create, list in folder, view, and rename.

Table 1. Supported characters on HDFS
Special character symbol Description Filename support Folder name support
~ Tilde Fully supported Fully supported
@ Ampersat Fully supported Fully supported
$ Dollar sign Fully supported Fully supported
& Ampersand Fully supported Fully supported
( Left paranthesis Fully supported Fully supported
) Right paranthesis Fully supported Fully supported
* Asterisk Fully supported Fully supported
! Exclamation mark Fully supported Fully supported
+ Plus Fully supported Fully supported
= Equal Fully supported Fully supported
; Semicolon Fully supported Fully supported
, Comma Fully supported Fully supported
. Period Fully supported Fully supported
? Question mark

Not supported with Knox.

Fully supported Fully supported
' Apostrophe or single quote Fully supported Fully supported
% Percentage Fully supported Fully supported
Tжейкоб-åäö Non-standard alphabets with diacritics and accents. Fully supported Fully supported
# Hash Partially supported. Not supported for rename operations. Unsupported
/ Forward slash Unsupported Unsupported
\ Backslash Unsupported Unsupported
: Colon Unsupported Unsupported
Table 2. Supported characters on S3
Special character symbol Description Filename support Folder name support
( Left paranthesis Fully supported Fully supported
) Right paranthesis Fully supported Fully supported
* Asterisk Fully supported Fully supported
! Exclamation mark Fully supported Fully supported
- Hyphen Fully supported Fully supported
_ Underscore Fully supported Fully supported
. Period Fully supported Fully supported
' Apostrophe or single quote Fully supported Fully supported
Tжейкоб-åäö Non-standard alphabets with diacritics and accents. Fully supported Fully supported
/ Forward slash Partially supported Partially supported
& Ampersand Partially supported Partially supported
$ Dollar sign Partially supported Partially supported
= Equal Partially supported Partially supported
@ Ampersat Partially supported Partially supported
; Semicolon Partially supported Partially supported
: Colon Partially supported Partially supported
+ Plus Partially supported. Not supported for create operations on RAZ-enabled environments. Partially supported
, Comma Partially supported Partially supported
? Question mark

Not supported with Knox.

Partially supported Partially supported. Not supported for list, upload, and view operations.
\ Backslash Unsupported Unsupported
{ Left brace Unsupported Unsupported
} Right brace Unsupported Unsupported
^ Caret or circumflex Unsupported Unsupported
% Percentage Unsupported Unsupported
~ Tilde Unsupported Unsupported
< Less than sign Unsupported Unsupported
> Greater than sign Unsupported Unsupported
# Hash Unsupported Unsupported
" Quotation mark Unsupported Unsupported
` Grave accent or backtick Unsupported Unsupported
] Right bracket Unsupported Unsupported
[ Left bracket Unsupported Unsupported
| Vertical bar or pipe Unsupported Unsupported
Table 3. Supported characters on ABFS
Special character symbol Description Filename support Folder name support
~ Tilde Fully supported Fully supported
@ Ampersat Fully supported Fully supported
# Hash Partially supported. Not supported for view and rename operations. Unsupported
$ Dollar sign Fully supported Fully supported
& Ampersand Fully supported Fully supported
( Left paranthesis Fully supported Fully supported
) Right paranthesis Fully supported Fully supported
* Asterisk Fully supported Fully supported
! Exclamation mark Fully supported Fully supported
+ Plus Fully supported Fully supported
= Equal Fully supported Fully supported
: Colon Unsupported Unsupported
; Semicolon Fully supported Fully supported
, Comma Fully supported Fully supported
. Period Fully supported Fully supported
? Question mark

Not supported with Knox.

Partially supported. Not supported for view and rename operations. Partially supported. Not supported for list, rename, and view operations.
/ Forward slash Unsupported Unsupported
\ Backslash Unsupported Unsupported
' Apostrophe or single quote Fully supported Fully supported
% Percentage Fully supported Fully supported
Tжейкоб-åäö Non-standard alphabets with diacritics and accents. Fully supported Fully supported