If I retrieve a profile using the Force.com Migration Tool (i.e. Ant) whose name contains certain characters, such as open or close round brackets, the character is url encoded in the resulting .profile filename.

For example, a profle name My Profile (Test) would yield the file My Profile %28Test%29.profile.

However, the corresponding <members> element in the generated package.xml file still lists the name in its original form (i.e. without the encoding). This means you cannot deploy the retrieved content without first modifying the package.xml file, which seems contrary to the intent.

The above was observed with v17.0 of the Migration Tool.

-Gino