bug/deficiency in unzip: incompatible with other programs when entry path names have non-ascii chars

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 5 04:10:00 GMT 2014


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On 2014-11-04 20:08, Brent wrote:
> I then reran my complete test suite.  Everything now works except the part
> of the test where cygwin unzip is to extract a zip file produced by Java.
> This particular zip file has entries whose path names are non-ASCII chars.
> I have manually verified that this zip file is perfectly extractable by
> 7zip and WinZip, so Java does not seem to be the problem.

Thank you for providing your test case.  This is a known issue with 
unzip, and the exact same things occurs with your test.zip on Linux:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/unzip.html

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Yaakov


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