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Brijesh
Asked: 2020-10-14 09:55:28 +0800 CST

Getting error "pathname cannot be converted from utf-8 to current locale" while extracting a zip file in ubuntu 20.04

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When I am trying to unzip a file "Desktop.zip" I am getting below error as shown in figure:

err_msg

I have made this zip file in ubuntu 20.04. Then downgraded to 18.04 and tried to unzip here.

I am not able to understand what and why is this problem occuring.

Although I am able to extract by using terminal command: $ unzip Desktop.zip

But not by GUI, I am interested to know how can I solve it, if possible.

locale utf-8 zip 18.04 unzip

1 Answers

  1. Try this command : unzip -I UTF-8 Desktop.zip

    Above command worked for me:

    unzip -I (encoding) (FILE_PATH) -d (Destination)

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