No I don’t have special characters like Chinese and Japanese, but I do have ~ and %.
I start my rclone command in 2 different ways:
One way is to double click on a cmd file with this in it (this script get the script filename and create a path for the log file in another folder):
@echo off
echo start CMD
set datetime=%DATE% %TIME%
REM get filename of cmd
set filename=%~n0
set new_filename=%filename:Real =%
REM get grandparent folder
SET parent=%~dp0
FOR %%a IN ("%parent:~0,-1%") DO SET grandparent_folder=%%~dpa
REM create log filename from new_filename
set grandparent_folder
if not exist "%grandparent_folder%log" mkdir "%grandparent_folder%log"
set logpath= "%grandparent_folder%log\%new_filename%.log
@echo on
rclone sync “local folder” “remote name”:“remote folder” --log-file %logpath%" --log-level INFO --delete-after --copy-links --stats-one-line -P --stats 5s
python "format_log_rclone.py" "%logpath%" "%datetime%"
Note that it is normal that there is only a single " after %logpath% (and none before).
The second way is to start a python script with a GUI that let me choose with cmd I want (I have several cmd like the one above for different remotes/Google drive). The cmd is called with subprocess.call([cmd_path]).
I have the trailing characters for both even though the first one is running in a cmd console and the second one in a python console.
Note that the trailing characters don’t bother me, but it may bother or confuse new users.
I am trying in powershell and will let you know