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Bug 619116 - File-roller doesn't extract files with accented characters
File-roller doesn't extract files with accented characters
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-05-19 18:34 UTC by Nedanfor
Modified: 2010-05-22 11:43 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30


Description Nedanfor 2010-05-19 18:34:37 UTC 
It happens with ZIP archives, I didn't try with other formats. I must extract them with unzip that works correctly. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and file-roller 2.30.1.1.

For example I compressed the file 'Example àèéìù' in a ZIP archive. The error is: "caution: filename not matched:  Example \?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?".
Comment 1 Nedanfor 2010-05-20 11:15:25 UTC 
I tried also with RAR, BZ2 and TAR. They don't have any problem, so this could be a good workaround. I hope that this information may be usefull.
Comment 2 Nelson Benitez 2010-05-22 00:27:15 UTC 
This seems a problem of the underlying zip command as I was able to reproduce it just using the zip and unzip commands on a terminal.
Comment 3 Paolo Bacchilega 2010-05-22 06:52:30 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> This seems a problem of the underlying zip command as I was able to reproduce
> it just using the zip and unzip commands on a terminal.

thanks for the info, closing as not a GNOME bug...
Comment 4 Nelson Benitez 2010-05-22 11:43:18 UTC 
Some info I've recollected about this issue:

- The bug is in Info-zip zip/unzip program, the bug is that if you added a utf8 filename, and yo do a 'unzip -l zipfile' (which file-roller does to list the contents of the zipfile) then utf8 filenames are shown with ?? characters.. BUT if you extracts the zip file, e.g. 'unzip zipfile' the file gets extracted with its valid utf8 name and it's shown correctly in nautilus.. so, this is a bug just in the 'unzip' listing of the contents of the zipfile.

- This bug is probably introduced in last version of info-zip package which has new feature 'native utf8 support' see http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html#Release

- Info-zip doesn't have a proper bug-tracker but has forum and someone reported this issue (even with a patch).. see http://www.info-zip.org/board/board.pl?m-1250835536/


WORKAROUND
I installed the p7zip-full package (in Ubuntu) which provides the '7z' command and now file-roller correctly adds/shows/extract/ filenames with utf8 special chars. I don't even needed to unistall the Info-zip package, it seems file-roller gives preference to 7z rather than the zip/unzip commands.