Most Linux/Unix filesystem store the names as bytes, and can use any encoding (whatever the locale of the user/shell is).

Modern Windows (NTFS, vFAT with long file names) and MAC OSX HFS+ use UCS-2/UTF-16. In some situations non-ASCII in filenames on OSX is escaped. OSX also is "case conserving", which means that e.g. Foo.txt and foo.txt in the same directory point to the same file. Maybe Windows is also case conserving (a Win-guy told me so yesterday.

Thus filenames are not portable between (the most popular) operating systems unless you restrict filenames to ASCII a-zA-Z0-9_+.- and avoid case-duplicates.

In your case you maybe should unpack on a Linux-system, URL-encode the filenames, and then transfer them to Win. But keep in mind that on Linux filenames can be 255 bytes long, whereas Win allows 255 UCS-2 characters.

In reply to Re: How to fix wrongly encoded filenames? by wollmers
in thread How to fix wrongly encoded filenames? by mcc001

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