Filename problem when downloading folder as zip

general discussion
1

We are using urbackup for backing up a number of computers in my work.

Most of the filenames are in greek (unicode) and although they are stored ok in the server and downloaded one by one by the web interface without a problem, zipping the whole directory and downloading it results in unreadable filenames, although the file content is OK.

It seems to me that there might be a problem with the zipping process handling unicode filenames.

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

2

Yes, there is a problem. Will be fixed in the next version.

This build in Windows zip archive thing does only handle unicode filenames in Windows 8, though. So you should use something like 7-zip.

3

I was using winzip on a windows 7 machine. I also tried 7zip and winrar. Same problem.

Will be waiting for next version.

Thank you

4

Now on 1.4.3 although the names appears OK, there seems to be a problem with the zip file. It doesn’t decompress at all.

Tried with Winzip and 7zip on windows 7. Same problem.

7zip reports “unsupported compression method” to every file.

Thanks

5

Thanks again for the hint. It’s this issue https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/75827792?page=3 (I’m not correctly writing the flags to the local header). May therefore work with other tools (e.g. WinRAR). Just fixed that.