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Ohmygirl
Asked: 2015-05-09 18:23:18 +0800 CST

How can I avoid broken languages when unzipping unicode files?

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It happens often that I see unknown file names when uncompressing zip files.

For example,

 ╕╢╣¤└╟╝║-Bb└╠┴╢╛╟▒т┐ы-┼м╢є╕о│▌,┼╫│╩╗Ў╝╥╞∙ ╝╥╟┴╢є│ы╗Ў╝╥╞∙ ,╞о╖│╞ъ

What could be the solution for the problem?

unicode

5 Answers

  1. Korean MS Windows encoding cp-949 may be used to zip the original files. Try unzip with Windows Encoding option.

    unzip -O cp-949 <file.zip>

    Note: I checked the profile of original poster to know from where he/she is (Seoul, South Korea). For other users, you have to check the origin of zip and change the encoding respectively.

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  2. Try using p7zip. (@Pilot6 mentioned that p7zip doesn't work well for non UTF-8 encodings, but if you only need for UTF-8, then that's an easy solution.)

    apt-get update
apt-get install p7zip-full
7z x thefile.zip -o"outputDir"
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  3. If you use standard Ubuntu Archive Manager and Ubuntu version 14.04+, then this can be solved by installing patched Archive Manager (file-roller). The problem is that file-roller uses p7zip for unzipping zip archives, if p7zip-full is installed. But p7zip does not handle non-UTF-8 encodings well. I patched file-roller to always use unzip for that purpose. Unzip itself has been fixed. The patched file-roller can be installed from my ppa

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/file-roller
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install file-roller
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  4. miniunzip in package minizip also seems to work fine with non-ascii filenames

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  5. I succeeded in two ways:

    unzip -O cp936 file.zip
unzip -O GBK file.zip
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