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[image: Think Green !] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ! On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Skybinder <lio...@li.ru> wrote: > While someone clever works on it > why not use an old version of unzip to solve the encoding problem, > just download and replace according to your architecture: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/ru/jaunty/unzip . > Use > unzip -O cp866 > for Windows created zip-archives. > > -- > unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580961 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu > Greece, which is a direct subscriber. > > Status in Ubuntu Japanese Kaizen Project: Fix Committed > Status in unzip - free software .zip unarchiver: Unknown > Status in “unzip” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in “unzip” package in Debian: Confirmed > Status in Gentoo Linux: Fix Released > Status in “unzip” package in Mandriva: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: unzip > > This is a fairly annoying bug that's been around and known at least since > 2005. It's very visible as it will very often make exchange of zip files > with Windows users impossible, for example. As such, it gathered it's fair > share of "me too" and "how dare you haven't fixed this yet!!111!" comments. > > Problem description: > zip/unzip and the specification fall short when dealing with non-ASCII > filenames not encoded in UTF-8 > > test case: > do an "unzip -l" on the file http://tinyurl.com/2aofpxs and witness the > question marks > > affected programs: > the problem is in unzip itself, but affects GUI like xarchiver, > file-roller, etc. that rely on unzip for the decompression > > suggested solutions (most are workarounds, not proper fixes): > a) reintroduce patch for codepage-based zip filenames: bug 477755, > http://tinyurl.com/2aqdbqg (Ubuntu blueprint) > b) unzip filename according to locale: bug 203609 > c) Ubuntu JP has a patch, probably not generally applicable, bug 269482 > d) Russian altlinux distro uses natspec lib and patched zip binary > > natspec was mentioned in bug 477755 comment #2 and may indeed be a proper > fix, needs closer inspection (I haven't really looked, yet. As discussed in > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306403 there is no failsafe, > straight-forward way to fix this in all cases. Nonetheless, the current > situation can and should be improved. There's some good ideas floating > around. It needs somebody to pull and wrap them together. > > It's unfortunate the FOSS community so far hasn't been able to fix this > rather visible problem. I'm opening this ticket as a master bug and clean > slate to document the issue and current status. Please don't ruin it by > making above-mentioned unhelpful comments, they actually slow things down! > Please don't nominate for a release. > > Unless you're a dev and can provide a patch, you should think VERY > carefully to do anything but > > 1) subscribe yourself to this ticket > 2) mark this bug as affecting you > 3) tell me via mail about other bugs you think are a duplicate of this one, > discussing the same problem > > 1) to 3) will showcase to the devs how many people are affected and that is > the only real chance we have for somebody to take a serious look. "Me too" > comments do the opposite, so again, please don't do it. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr<https://launchpad.net/%7Elinux.sch.gr> > Post to : linux.sch...@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr<https://launchpad.net/%7Elinux.sch.gr> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
