https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378904

            Bug ID: 378904
           Summary: Ark should use charset auto-detection for filenames
           Product: ark
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: elvis.angelac...@kde.org
          Reporter: kdeb...@fratti.ch
                CC: rthoms...@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

ZIP archives have no standardised encoding for filenames and do not supply the
charset information in the archive itself. This results in a problem that
occurs when opening a ZIP created by, say, a Japanese Windows user, in Ark, as
the filenames will come out as a garbled mess since Ark will expect a different
encoding than the one that was used.

This can be worked around by using a library such as uchardet, which can guess
the used encoding from the binary filename string. Allowing users to manually
specify which encoding should be tried would also be a helpful addition.

A file demonstrating this issue can be found here:
http://maltinerecords.cs8.biz/release/164/MARU164.zip

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