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That Brazilian Guy
Asked: 2013-06-10 19:11:59 +0800 CST

Unrar fails when accents are present in filenames

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I have the rar package installed. Double clicking on .rar files opens the file in Archive manager. It works fine when folders or files use only characters with no accentuation, but if there is some accentuation present (inside the archives, not on the archive container filenames), then files that will open just fine in Windows using Winrar, 7zip or other archiver will produce an error message in Ubuntu.

The Archive Manager window will show the file list with wrong charsets, and trying to extract the files will produce two distinct errors:

If I double click the file: 

RAR 4.00 beta 3   Copyright (c) 1993-2010 Alexander Roshal   17 Dec 2010
Shareware version         Type RAR -? for help


Extracting from /media/folder/file.rar

No files to extract

If I use the extract command:

all the files in the archive will be extracted but (invalid encoding) will be attached to the end of the folders and files with accentuation.

archive

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Running unrar x /path/to/file . will decompress the files with no encoding errors.

    Apparently the issue is caused by the Archive Manager. (I'd really like to be able to use Archive Manager and the GUI, so if someone has a better answer I'll gladly accept it!)

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  2. I had a similar problem with a .rar file that contained non-standard Unicode symbols in the filenames. Solved it like this:

    sudo apt install rar
rar e filename.rar
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  3. Here these commands work fine and solved my problem.

    first, install unrar on Ubuntu using the below commands.

    sudo apt install unrar-free
sudo apt install unrar

    Now extract your rar files using below commands

    unrar x /path-where-rar-file-exist  /path-you-want-to-extract
unrar x p1.rar /var/www/html/
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