Hey guys :) It is worth knowing that ZIP archives can come with different encodings for file names.
The old standard encoding for ZIP is CP437 [1]. Since CP437 only covers the need of certain regions of the world, people on Windows began to use whatever local encoding available, for example, ZIP archives created in Simplified Chinese version of Windows uses CP936 [2]. In 2007, optional UTF-8 support is added to ZIP standard [3]. Unforunately, unzip pre-installed on Linux/Mac OS X and built-in ZIP support of MS Windows don't support the new standard well. I know some people want unzip be fixed but the unzip upstream seems inactive. And unzip is a program supporting so many platforms (including VMS!), so it may be a bit hard to hack. I would recommend 7Z archvie to do cross-platform archive exchange since it seems to support Unicode-based filename from day one. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_936 3. http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495880 Title: Extracting a file with german "Umlaut" in the filename doesn't work Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: file-roller I have received a zip containing a file with a german "Umlaut" in the filename. I cannot extract the file because I get the following error message: caution: filename not matched: Liste Verwaltung und Verk\?ndigung Dezember 2009.xls I have no possibility to change the filename and eliminate the "Umlaut" in the filename... ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: e27141b8feed9a0134eefdd87f008818 CheckboxSystem: 558fbfb2a1258711a37bb7e23c5d4e6e Date: Sat Dec 12 11:48:49 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: file-roller 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-386 SourcePackage: file-roller Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-386 i686 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:3121): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:3121): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3161): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:3155): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/495880/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
