File-roller : encoding problem when using 7z

Mahendra Tallur mahen at tallur.net
Thu Jul 5 07:44:32 UTC 2012


Hi !

Sorry for bothering you ! I get in touch with you after exchanging a 
couple of emails with the p7zip Debian maintainer. It turned out 
file-roller (under Debian Wheezy) uses 7z to decompress .zip files.

-> zip files made under OSX, which contains, for instance, japanese 
characters, are not displayed / decompress properly, while there are 
when using 7za (or unzip) from the command line. But not 7z.

According to the p7zip maintainer, 7za is supposed to be used. Do you 
think it would be possible to make file-roller use 7za instead of 7z ? 
Would it be possible to fix this for Wheezy (as the bug seem to affect 
any .zip file made under OSX when using foreign UTF-8 characters, which 
is, IMHO, a problem for a stable release ?)

Sorry for the inconvenience,
please tell me if I should report the bug directly to Debian,

best regards & thanks for what you do !
Mahendra




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