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 have tried all of them (creating documents with RAR, gzip, bz2, zip, jar format created by Gnome's file-roller) and all of them opens shows junk file name on Windows (opened by 7-zip running on Windows). However if I receive a document from a Windows user in tar, gzip, bz2, zip format (when testing, created by 7-zip Windows version), all of them opens junk file name on SuSE BUT if a Windows user send me RAR file (made with winRAR), open it in Linux, the file name is CORRECT. So: RAR file made on Linux doesn't contain charset information, RAR files made on Windows contain charset information. The only format acceptable to general Windows user I haven't tried yet is: CAB. This format can be opened by Windows 98/Me/2000/XP. I didn't try it because I cannot find a tool to make such archives. I can only find cabextract in SuSE repository which is used to open CAB format. Still no solution. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
