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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
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  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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