Chinese file names in Zip Archives compressed on Windows cannot be extracted correctly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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File Roller |
Unknown
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Unknown
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KDE Utilities |
Invalid
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
file-roller (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
kdeutils (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
p7zip (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
unzip (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
I am a user from China, when one of my friend and I are preparing for helping more Chinese user migrate to Ubuntu or Kubuntu, we found file-roller and ark don't work properly as what we want to.
Usually we have many files that were compressed on Windows, with Chinese file names. When I tried to decompress one of them I found Ark cannot get the proper encoding of the file. On Windows, the file names are encoded as CP936 or GBK, but Ark regards them as UTF-8 by default, so we cannot see or get the files with right name but all strange characters. I tried to find why, then I know I have installed both p7zip and unzip on my Ubuntu, and Ark calls p7zip package to decompress .zip archive instead of the package 'unzip'. Then I purged the p7zip package and tried again, and the problem is still there, unsolved.
Thanks for your time to pay attention to this problem.
Some more information about my system and the softwares are listed here:
This problem was reported since Jaunty, and still persist in Karmic.
Changed in ubuntu: | |
assignee: | nobody → fujianwzh (fujianwzh) |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
assignee: | fujianwzh (fujianwzh) → nobody |
affects: | ubuntu → kdeutils (Ubuntu) |
Changed in kdeutils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
tags: | added: cjk i18n |
summary: |
- Ark cannot decompress Zip Archives with Chinese file name that - compressed on Windows + Chinese file names in Zip Archives compressed on Windows cannot be + extracted correctly |
description: | updated |
Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
The same problems exists for other encodings too! I have this problem with greek file names, which cannot be extracted at all, but file-roller extracts them even though it does create file with weird names.