in reply to File name issue in Archive::Zip

Which version of Archive::Zip is installed on your machine? What OS and Perl version are you using?

From the wikipedia article about the zip format I found that UTF-8 unicode support for filenames was added to the file specification in September 2007. I found at Stackoverflow a discussion of this problem on Windows platforms in Archive::Zip. There was a bug report for it (#35334) in 2008 that everyone was sure would be resolved in 2009. But looking at the bug list for Archive::Zip it is still unresolved.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/560097/how-can-i-create-a-zip-archive-in-perl

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Archive-Zip

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Re^2: File name issue in Archive::Zip
by AATG_PERL_1010 (Initiate) on Oct 25, 2011 at 14:51 UTC

    I am using perl version 5.8.8 for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

    and perl v5.8.4 for sun4-solaris-64int

    I am using both Windows(XP) and Solaris( sun4-solaris-64int). First i will do the coding/testing in windows, once it is done, i will commit to Solaris server and then finally will use that code from Windows machine(As a web based application(using CGI)).

    When i was searching for the version of Archieve::Zip through its package ".pm" file, i found it is Revision 1.6 and created in 2000

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      That is a really ancient version of Archive::Zip. Although the bug is still active why not upgrade and try again. The part that you need might have been fixed already.

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        Thank you for your comments. I have upgraded the latest version of Archive::Zip 1.30(released in 2009) through ppm on my windows machine. But no use.

        As i just truncate these swedish character to "_" and also got approval for this, this is not required for me for time-being. But still i am wondering about this issue.

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