Hi, all.

I wonder we'd have a test cases database. I think we can use the bug
tracking systems come with code hosting services . People use  different
natural languages and have different compression preferences can all
post sample archives. Maintainers mark new and essential test cases as
confirmed, repeated test cases as duplicate, ...

This database, more specifically the confirmed part,  can then be used
as the verification tool of proposed solutions.

This bug points to several unzip packages in different distributions. It
seems that info-zip people refused local encoding related patch and
info-zip's board is down. We'd maintain the patch ourselves, which is
not ideal. (I'm not very sure whether info-zip's license permits
forking)

Is it possible to use p7zip, bsdtar or other promising projects, if any,
as our foundation? if we have an CLI archiver with official supported
encoding conversion capacity. The remaining work for file-roller and ark
would be much easier. Changing main archiver may not be that dangerous,
I believe, if we have enough test cases.

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  unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

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