Am 11.08.2012 22:53 schrieb René Scharfe: > The standard says we need to convert to CP437, or to UTF-8, or provide > both versions. A more interesting question is: What's supported by which > programs? > > The ZIP functionality built into Windows 7 doesn't seem to work with > UTF-8 encoded filenames (except for those that only use the ASCII > subset), and to ignore the UTF-8 part if both are given. I played a bit with the git source code and found out, that diff --git a/archive-zip.c b/archive-zip.c index f5af81f..e0ccb4f 100644 --- a/archive-zip.c +++ b/archive-zip.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static int write_zip_entry(struct archiver_args *args, copy_le16(dirent.creator_version, S_ISLNK(mode) || (S_ISREG(mode) && (mode & 0111)) ? 0x0317 : 0); copy_le16(dirent.version, 10); - copy_le16(dirent.flags, flags); + copy_le16(dirent.flags, flags+2048); copy_le16(dirent.compression_method, method); copy_le16(dirent.mtime, zip_time); copy_le16(dirent.mdate, zip_date); -- works with 7-zip, however, not with Windows 7 build-in zip. If I create a zip file with 7-zip which contains umlauts and other unicode chars like (國立1-кккк.txt) the Windows 7 build-in zip displays them correctly, too. -- 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