When you receive a ZIP file from a Windows user, umlauts and other non-latin1 characters in filenames may look corrupt, and probably will be corrupt when extracting the ZIP file.
The reason is encoding: Such archives are probably using Codepage 850. I am serious, 1987 is calling.
Fortunately, the unzip command can handle such files like so:
unzip -O CP850 file.zip
Interestingly enough, Rubyzip also compresses files that way. Probably so files look alright to Windows users.
Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2018-07-18 17:04)