Files with extended (spanish) characters in the name

[Jose M. Albarrán]

Binary package hint: file-roller

I normally receive files created from Windows Systems, with WinZip. These files can be named with spanish characters 'áéíóúÑñ' (vowels acuted, double n).

When I open these files with file-roller, I don't see the correct file names (the extended character have been changed for other - for example, 'Día' (day in spanish, with i-acuted) is changed to D6a.

If I extract these files, I get the incorrect names also.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 19 19:06:35 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: file-roller 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, can you submit an example to test with? also an screenshot would be useful, thanks.

[Jose M. Albarrán (yomismo-jmalbarran)]

I attach the following files

- A TXT file with special characters in name (áéíóúÑñ¿¡)
- The file ZIPPED. I have zipped using windows application WinRAR, but I have seen the bug also with WinZIP
- The screenshot. You see the filename transformed to other special characters

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks, but i don't think it has nothing to do with file-roller, if you unzip the file with the command line utility (unzip) you get the same results, not a file-roller bug, probably something broken on the windows encoding. thanks you.

[Alejandro Hernandez (alejandro-ajhr)]

I think is not a problem of file-roller, but of winrar port for linux.
I had the same problem, so i tried then to extract the files with the console client, i saw there was problems even in listing the files with winrar.
Later i tried the p7zip-rar, wich seems to work fine, a possible solution may be changing the backend of fileroller, making it p7zip-rar instead of winrar port. It can be optional to. why not?. By the way, is there a way without re-compiling of doing so?, i mean to change the backend in my computer at least.

Thanks, and have a nice day.