Greetings.

I have been using JD2 for a while but this week I had to reinstall it because of a machine migration, and noted the Archive Extractor options. They all worked correctly, but some file formats, specially ZIP, do not register the packed files encoding, they just use the OS default, which can vary. A lot. Thus, to avoid the files being unarchived with messed up names, we need some way to set at least a default encoding option to use in such formats (zip and rar are the problem, 7z is imune because it uses Unicode). Otherwise, the whole auto unarchiving feature becomes useless. Is there any way to set this via a command option? I could not find nothing like it in the preferences panel. I now have have gone back to doing it mannually with Keka, my default unarchiver, which handles this well. To fix bad names consumes more time then unarchiving manually...

Thanks in advance.
Brian

[Jiaz]

The used library for extraction currently doesn't support unicode encoded filenames in zips. With updated/newer library the filenames for zips are correct again. Would it be possible to provide example archive links for testing?

My problems are with CD titles, such as the on
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff** or
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**
and serveral other on blogs like
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**
It is hard to tell if the zip file will have accented (or cyrilic or ideograms) characteres in advance. This one CD with songs by Martín y Soler certainly has a acute accented i in the title and files, and is available in three URLs, not all reachable with JD extensions:
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**
The last two change the í when I auto-unpack them in a UTF-8 environment like MacOS or Linux.

Anyway, since it is not possible to guess 100% correctly the encoding used by ZIP during packing, there should be some way of setting a fallback value to be used with old formats such as ZIP (the worst and more common) that do not support Unicode natively such as 7z (the best and rarely used).

For example, wheh Keka finds a ZIP archive with non-ASCII characteres it tries to guess the encoding and shows a encoding selection dialog box for confirmation unless you set it to always use a predef encoding such as ISO Latin 1. In JD, interaction is unwanted, so a default key would suffice.

[Jiaz]

Originally Posted by Brian

For example, wheh Keka finds a ZIP archive with non-ASCII characteres it tries to guess the encoding and shows a encoding selection dialog box for confirmation unless you set it to always use a predef encoding such as ISO Latin 1. In JD, interaction is unwanted, so a default key would suffice.

That's not that easy because we don't get hands on the 'raw' bytes/infos but already processed information by the extraction module, for example zip.

[Jiaz]

rar does support unicode.
zip only supports via special header extension utf8. but not many tools use those.
zip contains *raw* filename which relies on both systems (zip creator, zip extractor) to work on same encoding.
that's why an optional header got introduced to additionally save the filename as UTF8 encoding but none of the archives contained such a header. This header is supported with newer version of the extraction library

[Jiaz]

The first example works fine with newer extraction library, see https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=71069
The 2nd example fails for me because of different system/encoding

Both zip don't contain any UTF8 filename header

Ouput from 7z commandline tool
1.) Montréal - Théâtre
2.) Mart¡n

[Jiaz]

At the moment only *wild* guessing as other tools would be possible but *hard* to detect if such a situation is existing.

OK, thanks for clarifying! Since we cannot control how others create the archives I believe this is as good as it gets.
Thanks again.

[Jiaz]

Sorry that I couldn't provide a solution to this :(