Foreing foreign name encoding in rar is not recognized when not utf8

Bug #962813 reported by Robin Audy
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Bug Description

I noticed the file name inside an archive is not readable if it contains foreign characters (Cyrillic in my case), probably cp1251 compressed in Windows. The archive is compressed in rar format. I hope this is helpful.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: file-roller 2.32.2-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.56-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 23 11:02:15 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2012-02-10 (42 days ago)

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Robin Audy (robinaudy) wrote :
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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 177929, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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