Re: Fw: Unicode filename problems

From: David Starner (dvdeug@ispwest.com)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 03:21:01 EDT

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    On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:58:53PM -0500, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
    > In the meantime, to get it onto CD, I decided to try and zip all the
    > files. Turns out almost all the zippers out there DO NOT support Unicode
    > filenames. Doug Rintoul found WinRAR
    > (http://www.rarlab.com/rar_archiver.htm) which does the trick in the RAR
    > format only. There is a RAR expander for Macintosh and Linux systems as
    > well (all of these are $29 USD). So far, have not found a freeware
    > solution that meets unicode filename needs. Have any of you run into this
    > yet?

    You could try tar; at least on Unix, it handles Unicode (UTF-8) just
    fine.

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    David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro
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