I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 12 May 2011, at 13:35, Bartosz <580...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> ** Changed in: unzip (Ubuntu) > Status: Fix Released => Triaged > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of > Papercutters, which is subscribed to One Hundred Paper Cuts. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580961 > > Title: > unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings > > Status in File Roller: > Confirmed > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: > Invalid > Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: > Triaged > Status in Ubuntu Japanese Kaizen Project: > Fix Committed > Status in unzip - free software .zip unarchiver: > Unknown > Status in “unzip” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > Status in “unzip” source package in Natty: > Won't Fix > Status in “unzip” package in Debian: > Confirmed > Status in Gentoo Linux: > Won't Fix > Status in “unzip” package in Mandriva: > Confirmed > Status in “unzip” package in openSUSE: > Unknown > > 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580961 Title: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/580961/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
