Character code of file name in zip file.

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File names of "Container filenames column" in a zip file are garbled.
Can Everything treat a UTF-8 code for file name in a zip file?

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Can you give an example? (maybe a screenshot can help here).

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Please see attached.

The file "01234ABCDE.zip" contains a file "01234ABCDE.txt." <-- ASCII characters.
The file "あいうえおかきくけこ.zip" contains a file "あいうえおかきくけこ.txt." <-- Japanese characters.
The file "アイウエオカキクケコ.zip" contains a file "アイウエオカキクケコ.txt." <-- Japanese characters.
The file "安以宇衣於加幾久計己.zip" contains a file "安以宇衣於加幾久計己.txt." <-- Japanese characters.

The filename encoding in zip files is UTF-8.

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This really helped. Thanks!


I tried to reproduce, first using 7-zip 24.9 (results in the 7-zip folder), then using Windows' own mechanism ( in the "windows zip" folder).
(btw: Windows 11 24H2 has a new (un)zipping tool that also supports .7z and .rar files)

To me both look OK.
Just guessing: What program(s) do you use to zip these files? Maybe one of them is not fully unicode aware?

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I'm sorry about my lack of a check.
The file name encoding is actually "Windows code page 932" despite the setting that an archiver uses UTF-8 encoding.

So, can the Everything determine whether the encoding that a zip file is using is UTF-8 or system encoding, and can the Everything display container filenames with the applicable encoding?
Some archivers can do this.