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Re: git archive --format zip utf-8 issues

From
SSSven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de>
Date
Aug 10, 2012, 23:53 UTC
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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

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> 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)
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Best regards,
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Message 3 of 21 in “git archive --format zip utf-8 issues”
  1. Sven StrickrothAug 10, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2012
  3. Sven StrickrothAug 10, 2012
  4. René ScharfeAug 11, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2012
  6. René ScharfeAug 11, 2012
  7. Sven StrickrothAug 11, 2012
  8. Jeff KingAug 30, 2012
  9. René ScharfeSep 4, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  11. René ScharfeSep 5, 2012
  12. René ScharfeSep 18, 2012
  13. 1/2 archive-zip: support UTF-8 pathsRené Scharfe, Sep 18, 2012
  14. 2/2 archive-zip: declare creator to be Unix for UTF-8 pathsRené Scharfe, Sep 18, 2012
  15. René ScharfeSep 18, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2012
  17. René ScharfeSep 20, 2012
  18. René ScharfeSep 24, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2012
  20. 3/2 archive-zip: write extended timestampRené Scharfe, Sep 24, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2012

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