FreeFileSync on macOS gives error with folders and files containing the character ≠ in their name

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Widowsky

Example:
Cannot read file attributes of "/Volumes/MacBook Pro HD/…/config_EFI_20200525-18h48-idem précédent avec Patches ≠.plist".

ENOENT: No such file or directory [lstat]
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therube

(I'll just note that FFS on Windows doesn't look to have any issues with not equal sign.)
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Widowsky

(I'll just note that FFS on Windows doesn't look to have any issues with not equal sign.)
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FFS not-equal-sign.png therube, 02 Aug 2021, 18:35
Have you actually run the sync?

The comparison with ≠ runs fine as well on macOS.
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Zenju

Could be the precomposed/decomposed issue: viewtopic.php?t=5485
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Widowsky

For information and in case it helps, the sync that failed because of the ≠ character was between two computers running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 via the local network.

I also haven't noticed any problems so far with accented characters and other special characters, which I use routinely.