Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-11-02 Thread Brent
Doug Henderson wrote: "You need to add the -r option to recurse into directories:" You are 100% correct; my oversight. Actually, it was a copy and paste error: the real code that I want to test does use -r, but when I tried to adapt that code to a simpler format for my email, I accidental

Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-11-01 Thread Doug Henderson
On 31 October 2014 23:00, Brent wrote: > > > It seems that cygwin's zip can archive files whose name includes non-ascii > (unicode) chars just fine, but if you try to archive a directory whose name > includes such chars, it fails. > $ zip test.zip åØâéñ > adding: åØâéñ/ (stored 0%) Yo

Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-10-31 Thread Brent
Nuts, the non-ascii unicode file names that I was using displayed fine when I looked at them in my email program (even in plain text mode), but I see on the mailing list web page (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg1.html) that they display garbled there. To recreate my tests, the unic

bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-10-31 Thread Brent
It seems that cygwin's zip can archive files whose name includes non-ascii (unicode) chars just fine, but if you try to archive a directory whose name includes such chars, it fails. First, I am using the very latest release of cygwin 64 bit: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 yhbrent 1.7.32(0.2