On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:47 +0200, J. Daniel Schmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 16:20, Simon Roberts wrote:
> >
> > WE cannot avoid it: some day you need to send several files to a
> > Windows user: you use a packing tool either because there are many
> > files or because the file had been too fat and can be compressed.
> >
> > What format to use: most western people I think will choose zip,
> > for me I got a problem: the Chinese file names, after un-packaged
> > on Windows, is junk text because on Linux we all use UTF-8 and
> > Windows Chinese version using different charset (GB18030)
> > ----------------------
> >
> > Have you tried jar? 
> 
> 
> WinRAR is even able to handle TAR, GZIP and BZIP2 archives.
> So give it a try and use the native tools  :)

I receives rar quire often from users: Linux and Windows alike. (So
'native' is a tricky concept.) I have never had the character set
problem because I have been lucky. No one is using öäåÖÄÅ in file names.
I would be curious for future reference to know if rar does indeed
convert character sets in file names. Maybe it is not a rar-specific
thing. Maybe it is the specific rar client at either end. It would be
interesting to know which they are.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

Ramböll Sverige AB
Kapellgränd 7
P.O. Box 4205
SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden

Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20
Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23

-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to