Obviously, the purge-fix above is not the fix but the "break" :). Actually, it seems that the problem is inside the p7zip package. The 7z program does not convert the character coding. It has the "scs" switch to convert the charset but it is not implemented in versions up to the p7zip_9.20.1. The cyrillic names in Windows-created ZIP file are stored in cp866. Surprisingly it is pretty difficult to add cp866 locale to Ubuntu. The typical solution: $ sudo /usr/share/locales/install-language-pack ru_RU.CP866 $ sudo locale-gen fails with silent error on the first command. Other solutions fail too (cannot open locale definition file ru_RU.CP866: No such file or directory). The following command does not list cp866 too: cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep ^ru The easiest way to deal with cp866 is to set LC_CTYPE to C (it means no conversion), and convert the output with iconv. -- The workaround is attached as a patch. Apply it to /usr/bin/7z. 7z-natspec.patch: autodetects your DOS charset. Requires libnatspec to be installed (see the next attachment). 7z.patch: please set manually windows_codepage (2nd line) to your DOS charset. -- The solution described is applicable to any region-specific charset.
** Patch added: "Autodetects our DOS charset. Requires libnatspec to be installed." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/177929/+attachment/2590958/+files/7z-natspec.patch -- 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/177929 Title: Should autodetect filename character encoding in zip files Status in File Roller: Confirmed Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “xarchiver” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: file-roller Many compressed file such as zip don't specify filename encoding. But file-roller read every file as UTF-8, so it sometimes makes encoding problem. I think may be, you could think that it's not a big problem or it's not a bug or we don't need those feature. If you deal with only English it's not a problem at all. But it's a big problem for East Asian people such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Because zip file is still popular. And many people compress zip file in Windows, and share the zip files. Windows don't use UTF-8. Many CJK people want to uncompress these zip files. There are some way to solve this problem (by another software). But all are too complex to Ubuntu newbies. I wish file-roller support encoding select function. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/177929/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
