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zip > rar (personal)
Until... I had to compress files with UTF-8 in the name. zip couldn't... ?
Ugh... rar it will be this time then...
I bet there's an option in Windows to allow this, right? I guess I'll have to adopt some file compression software... ideas? I just know a couple, and have no real favourite.

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  • 3
    1d
    Zip shouldn’t be caring about text encodings. It‘s operating on binary data, a stream of bytes.
    So if it fails on utf8, it’s probably the fault of the zip program.

    I recommend 7zip. It’s free and it supports a lot of different compression formats.
  • 0
    22h
    Personally I prefer RAR. But, I've dealt w/ archives created on Japanese machines. For those, you need to specify the encoding in WinRAR, so that you can see proper characters. Otherwise unpacking it leaves you w/ garbage names && !working whatever it is that you unpacked.
  • 0
    22h
    @D-4got10-01 Probably it‘s because you haven’t bought that WinRAR license. 🙃

    But seriously… WTF?
  • 0
    20h
    Zip format has a flag that supports utf8 filename encoding. Not all zip programs support this properly. But 7zip does. Anyway, this is according to the AI response when searching about this support. I have found the Windows built in zip support to be kinda shit. So I always use 7zip.
  • 0
    13h
    the zip format is an archive format with optional compression. It uses the DEFLATE and INFLATE algorithms along with LZ77 (or something like that idk) run-length encoding (RLE).

    Choose a language that you want to learn (maybe haskell? :D) and implement it with UTF-8 file name compatibility!
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