From: Sven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: git archive --format zip utf-8 issues
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:53:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50259EEC.2020701@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtxwagy9f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-10 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-10 21:58 git archive --format zip utf-8 issues Sven Strickroth
2012-08-10 22:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-10 23:53 ` Sven Strickroth [this message]
2012-08-11 20:53 ` René Scharfe
2012-08-12 4:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-11 20:53 ` René Scharfe
2012-08-11 21:37 ` Sven Strickroth
2012-08-30 22:26 ` Jeff King
2012-09-04 20:23 ` René Scharfe
2012-09-04 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-05 19:36 ` René Scharfe
2012-09-18 19:40 ` René Scharfe
2012-09-18 19:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] archive-zip: support UTF-8 paths René Scharfe
2012-09-18 19:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] archive-zip: declare creator to be Unix for " René Scharfe
2012-09-18 20:24 ` git archive --format zip utf-8 issues René Scharfe
2012-09-18 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 22:00 ` René Scharfe
2012-09-24 15:56 ` René Scharfe
2012-09-24 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-24 15:56 ` [PATCH 3/2] archive-zip: write extended timestamp René Scharfe
2012-08-12 4:27 ` git archive --format zip utf-8 issues Junio C Hamano
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