Japanese file names break

Question

I am trying to fix an encoding issue with any zip files or rar files that I unzip.

Anything I try to unzip through file-roller comes out like this

if using the unzip utility in terminal this is the output

  Archive:  romeo_inst.zip
  inflating: romeo/???~?I???V???f????.txt  
  inflating: romeo/???~?I???V???f????karaoke.mp3

I do not understand what is going wrong and I have tried everything including convmv and everything else!

@andrew.46 Thanks man! not used to this type of forums. – Tyler Ahde Apr 30 '16 at 16:39 — Tyler Ahde, Apr 30 '16 at 16:39

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 01:36

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 unzip -O cp932 filename.zip

Option -O cp932 avoid this collapse, I think.

answered Mar 09 '17 at 01:36

Sadaharu Wakisaka

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To add some reference, `-O` is for charsets of files generated from "_DOS, Windows and OS/2 archives_". If the file was created on Unix, use `-I`. And then, `cp932` refers to [Microsoft's Japanese encodings](https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/encodings.html#encodings-CP932). – Gino Mempin Mar 08 '19 at 03:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '22 at 19:20

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I use this to unzip my japanese encoded zip files:

unzip -O shift-jis filename.zip

file-roller uses p7zip if you have it installed. I don't know how it handles it without p7zip, but the above command should work fine.

answered Jun 05 '22 at 19:20

André M Piva

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '23 at 10:22

for GUI user: Archive Manager (file-roller)

install the modified verfion file-roller (or just extract the file-roller in *.deb)

and run with

UNZIP='-O CP932' ZIPINFO='-O CP932' bin/file-roller

file names maybe right.