Re: [OT] Unicode filename problems

[Raymond Mercier]

Before I am accused of being altogether OT I will try to answer a couple of 
points.

>>The name of the ZIP archive is not relevant: you don't really need to 
internationalize it, and can restrict it to ASCII with a classic .zip or 
.jar extension.

Someone using the Chinese or Russian Win2000 would naturally name files 
with Chinese or Russian characters. He hasn't chosen to "internationalize". 
He just has a right to function within that part of the Unicode universe of 
filenames that he happens to occupy.

>>Zip files should have no problems to contain files with UTF-8 names.
For example a Cyrillic filename U+444.doc, becomes in 
UTF-8  �ф.doc.  Neither is accepted by WInzip.

In writing a program like Winzip there is barrier to the use of fileopening 
routines with wide-byte characters. All the API routines are defined so as 
accept that. It is just that programmers have been rather lazy about it.

Raymond