[Development] The life of a file name and other possibly mal-encoded strings on non-Windows systems

[Konstantin Ritt]

2014-10-09 12:18 GMT+04:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:

> On Thursday 09 October 2014 09:55:36 Julien Blanc wrote:
> > On 09/10/2014 09:27, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > The only one that poses trouble are ISO-9660 CD-ROMs that have Rock
> Ridge
> > > extensions for Unix attributes and longer file names. Do people still
> have
> > > CD drives?
> >
> > People also have zip files, which unfortunately may have various
> > encoding in them, since the only normative encoding for zip files is
> cp437…
>
> And I've said time and again that the bug lies with the unzipping
> application.
> Copying CP437 encoded names is nonsense. Besides, CP850 is the best.
>
>
>
Actually, .ZIP format uses Unicode for quite a while (see
http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT , APPENDIX D -
Language Encoding (EFS)).

Regards,
Konstantin
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