Am 11.08.2012 00:47 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Do you know in what encoding the pathnames are _expected_ to be > stored in zip archives? re-encoding to latin1 does not always work and may break double byte totally (e.g. chinese or japanese). PKZIP APPNOTE seems to be the zip standard and it specifies a utf-8 flag: http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT > A. Local file header: > general purpose bit flag: (2 bytes) > Bit 11: Language encoding flag (EFS). If this bit is > set, the filename and comment fields for this file > must be encoded using UTF-8. (see APPENDIX D) -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html