If you are a developer looking to fix or prevent this issue in an application interacting with Google Drive, you should focus on ensuring consistent across your file-handling pipeline. Steps to Fix and Prevent Encoding Issues
: Google Drive uses UTF-8 to encode file names. Ensure your application explicitly sets the encoding to UTF-8 when uploading, downloading, or renaming files using the Google Drive API . If you are a developer looking to fix
: If the issue only appears in a web browser, users can try installing a "Garbled text" extension from the Chrome Web Store or manually forcing the page encoding to Unicode (UTF-8) if the browser supports it. : If the issue only appears in a
: Sometimes the visible name is fixed, but the underlying metadata still holds the garbled version. Use the Files: update method in the Drive API to simultaneously update the name and mimeType to ensure the correct extension and character set are applied. : If the garbled text appears in the
: If the garbled text appears in the browser title bar but not in Drive, it may be reading the Document Title from the PDF's internal metadata. You can fix this by opening the file in Adobe Acrobat and updating the Title field under Document Properties .