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On 8 May 2011, at 21:06, Vova <580...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> ** Changed in: unzip (Ubuntu Natty)
>     Assignee: Brian Thomason (brian-thomason) => Vova (vosha)
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580961
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> Title:
>  unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings
>
> Status in File Roller:
>  Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
>  Triaged
> Status in Ubuntu Japanese Kaizen Project:
>  Fix Committed
> Status in unzip - free software .zip unarchiver:
>  Unknown
> Status in “unzip” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “unzip” source package in Natty:
>  Won't Fix
> Status in “unzip” package in Debian:
>  Confirmed
> Status in Gentoo Linux:
>  Won't Fix
> Status in “unzip” package in Mandriva:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “unzip” package in openSUSE:
>  Unknown
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unzip
>
>  This is a fairly annoying bug that's been around and known at least
>  since 2005.  It's very visible as it will very often make exchange of
>  zip files with Windows users impossible, for example.  As such, it
>  gathered it's fair share of "me too" and "how dare you haven't fixed
>  this yet!!111!" comments.
>
>  Problem description:
>  zip/unzip and the specification fall short when dealing with non- 
> ASCII filenames not encoded in UTF-8
>
>  test case:
>  do an "unzip -l" on the file http://tinyurl.com/2aofpxs and witness  
> the question marks
>
>  affected programs:
>  the problem is in unzip itself, but affects GUI like xarchiver,  
> file-roller, etc. that rely on unzip for the decompression
>
>  suggested solutions (most are workarounds, not proper fixes):
>   a) reintroduce patch for codepage-based zip filenames: bug 477755, 
> http://tinyurl.com/2aqdbqg 
>  (Ubuntu blueprint)
>   b) unzip filename according to locale: bug 203609
>   c) Ubuntu JP has a patch, probably not generally applicable, bug  
> 269482
>   d) Russian altlinux distro uses natspec lib and patched zip binary
>
>  natspec was mentioned in bug 477755 comment #2 and may indeed be a
>  proper fix, needs closer inspection (I haven't really looked, yet.  
>  As
>  discussed in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306403 there
>  is no failsafe, straight-forward way to fix this in all cases.
>  Nonetheless, the current situation can and should be improved.
>  There's some good ideas floating around.  It needs somebody to pull
>  and wrap them together.
>
>  It's unfortunate the FOSS community so far hasn't been able to fix
>  this rather visible problem.  I'm opening this ticket as a master bug
>  and clean slate to document the issue and current status.  Please
>  don't ruin it by making above-mentioned unhelpful comments, they
>  actually slow things down!  Please don't nominate for a release.
>
>  Unless you're a dev and can provide a patch, you should think VERY
>  carefully to do anything but
>
>  1) subscribe yourself to this ticket
>  2) mark this bug as affecting you
>  3) tell me via mail about other bugs you think are a duplicate of  
> this one, discussing the same problem
>
>  1) to 3) will showcase to the devs how many people are affected and
>  that is the only real chance we have for somebody to take a serious
>  look.  "Me too" comments do the opposite, so again, please don't do
>  it.

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