Problem chars above ASCII 127 in filenames for Zip-tool

[Orion]

When I pack a file with the name "nøkken.txt" it becomes "nokken.txt" inside the zip-archive. Likewise the suggested name of of zip-archive name becomes "nokken.zip" instead of "nøkken.zip".
This character conversion occurs for the the internal packer.
Now, the files can still afterwards be extracted with the changed filenames. However, there is a problem when you e.g. both have a "nøkken.txt" and "nokken.txt". They will both be in the archive with same name: "nokken.txt" and this, of course, does give a problem when unpacking.
Also, even if there are no names coinciding it is still not good with this bug as a whole directory structure with many files may contain files which cannot be found by some other application after unpacking.

[Hacker]

Hello Orion,
What option did you set under "Pack Unicode names" for the ZIP packer?

Roman

[Orion]

I did not see this option as the server on which I was packing with TC only had version 7.x installed. I updated the version on the server to 8.1. I tried some of the different values and found that using "Store all names containing non-English in extra field" works.

Thanks for the help!

[MVV]

Standard ZIP is quite old format and it doesn't support Unicode names (archive directory keeps names in OEM encoding).

[Hacker]

[mod]Moved to the English forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]

[petermad]

2Orion

I did not see this option as the server on which I was packing with TC only had version 7.x installed.

Hmm, this option was also available in TC 7.x