nsfis
17th June 2004 12:22 UTC

Bug: ZIP2EXE has problems with accented characters
When I open ZIP archive, all accented characters are garbled. I work in Windows-1250 code page.

Joost Verburg
17th June 2004 13:07 UTC

The zip format has no Unicode / code page support. You should use the standard English code page to display these characters.

nsfis
18th June 2004 09:04 UTC

All programs that work with ZIP files that I am familiar with (Total Commander, WinRAR, IZArc) have no problems with accented characters. I know that Total Commander uses the same ZLIB library.

I assume that you work with windows-1252 code page. Try to create ZIP archive with german umlauts (äöü) in filenames and try to open it in ZIP2EXE and other software that supports ZIPs.

Joost Verburg
18th June 2004 16:52 UTC

But you are working with code page 1250, which does not contain these characters.

kichik
18th June 2004 19:49 UTC

Looks like there is some unwritten (or at least unfound by me) rule that ZIP files created on Windows use the OEM code page (which was probably used on good old DOS) and not the ANSI code page which is used by Windows. This caused the problem described above with my Hebrew ZIP files.

I have added a workaround in the latest CVS version.

nsfis
21st June 2004 08:52 UTC

I have tested the latest CVS version with accented characters (>128) of windows-1250 code page and it works great!

Thank you