Dear Monks, I need to zip a file containing the letter "ß". Archive::Zip can just handle unix Charset. The selected filed is compressed but the ß is replaced with a unreadable character. Does anybody know a solution ? After a deep search I found: http://www.bei-priess.de/computer/perl/winsonder.php. Although this page might be of interest for german speaking monks here a short translation:

Edit the following Registry Keys use the values in []
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP
+ [ = 1252]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OELHA
+L [ = vga850.fon]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WOW\bo
+ot\oemfonst.fon [ = vga850.fon]
[download]

After doing this the file straße.mdb was properly zipped in Windows XP.

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