: 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 .
: 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. : Google Drive uses UTF-8 to encode file names
The garbled filename you are seeing (e.g., аё§аё±аё™... ) is a classic sign of , which happens when a file name containing non-Latin characters (likely Cyrillic or Thai) is incorrectly interpreted using the wrong text encoding (often Latin-1/Windows-1252 instead of UTF-8). : Google Drive uses UTF-8 to encode file names