Bug 82436

Summary: wrong encoding for filenames
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio-extras Reporter: Nick Shaforostoff <shafff>
Component: ArchiveAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: aspotashev, bugseforuns, elvis.angelaccio, mail, nicolasg
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 18.04.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nick Shaforostoff 2004-05-29 14:10:30 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)

When i created zip-archive containing russian filenames (through RMB->Actions->Create ZIP arxhive; syslocale is koi8-u) and browsed it on Windows, filenames contained pseudographic characters.

Zip slave should convert filenames from syslocale to cp1251.
Comment 1 Nicolas Goutte 2004-05-30 16:30:07 UTC 
Well, that is the problem of the ZIP format. It does not tell in which encoding the file format is and it is always in the locale encoding (since MS-DOS.)

Have a nice day!
Comment 2 Nicolas Goutte 2004-05-31 14:49:38 UTC 
On Sunday 30 May 2004 16:30, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
(...)
>Well, that is the problem of the ZIP format. It does not tell in
> which encoding the file format is and it is always in the locale encoding
> (since MS-DOS.)

Reading my message again, I find that I have not explained enough.

The problem of changing automatically the encoding for specific locale 
encodings would mean that the KDE ZIP tools would be incompatible to other 
tools running on Linux (or respectively on other Unix-like operating 
systems.)

>
> Have a nice day!
Comment 3 Nick Shaforostoff 2004-05-31 15:08:39 UTC 
so the possible resolution is to make second zip action

RMB->Actions->Create ZIP archive (windows compatible)
Comment 4 Nicolas Goutte 2005-08-06 20:20:23 UTC 
See also bug #89051 for problem about ZIP file name encoding.
Comment 5 Julian Steinmann 2018-07-21 15:28:30 UTC 
This issue does still exist, but adding a separate option does not seem like a good idea to me. I'll move it over to kio-extras, but a good solution should be done in harmony with KZip (see bug 89051).