*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 580961 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580961
Ubuntu 12.10 (UI with US English-UTF-8 codepage) It seems if you KNOW from which SW platform zip file comes from and codepage, you can successfully unzip the archive without loosing non- ASCII filenames not encoded in UTF-8. I just did one experiment to unpack zip file that has been created in Korean Windows 7 and contains the Korean characters in both zip archive name and compressed files. First let's get a local-specific info: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Let's check the version of unzip utility: $ unzip --help UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. ... Usage: unzip [-Z] [-opts[modifiers]] file[.zip] [list] [-x xlist] [-d exdir] Default action is to extract files in list, except those in xlist, to exdir; file[.zip] may be a wildcard. -Z => ZipInfo mode ("unzip -Z" for usage). ... -O CHARSET specify a character encoding for DOS, Windows and OS/2 archives -I CHARSET specify a character encoding for UNIX and other archives Look at options with the following modifier: -O CHARSET specify a character encoding for DOS, Windows and OS/2 archives It is not -"zero", it is -O (capital O letter)! In my case Korean Windows has EUC-KR codepage. The compressed zip-file has "2013년 설날" file name. It means my command line will look like: $ unzip -O EUC-KR "2013년 설날" After checking unpacked files, it works! All files have right Korean encoding without strange characters. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10979 Title: unzip does not support UTF-8 filenames To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/10979/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs