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    <p>ZIP traditionally encodes filenames using IBM437 encoding. However to my knowledge, many tools (incorrectly) tend to use the default encoding on the system, which will likely cause problems in such a situation, because both ends might use different encodings.</p> <p>In theory ZIP also supports UTF-8 by now, which should resolve these problems, but again tool-support will be the problem. For example as far as I know the ZIP support of Windows Explorer won't be able to handle UTF-8 encoded filenames.</p> <p>So we end up with this: both ends have to agree about the encoding used for filenames and you will need an encoding that supports all the characters you have (any Unicode encoding will be fine, I'm not sure about IBM437 though). ZIP came a long way and thus there are many tools which tend to disagree about encoding. If possible, explicitly specify the encoding to use and prefer Unicode. In terms of compatibility with arbitrary tools you might be better off, using a newer format that is designed with Unicode in mind.</p> <p>7-Zip supports it since 4.58 beta, according to the change log, but will only use it, when the local code page doesn't support the required characters. Using the -mcu command line switch will use UTF-8 for anything but ASCII. The local encodings usually differ only on the non-ASCII character range, so this will most likely do the trick. That is, if the tool used for unpacking also supports UTF-8 (which is more likely for 7-ZIP than for ZIP, because it isn't as old as ZIP and there are fewer unpacking tools).</p> <p>WinRAR might also be worth a try.</p>
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