7zip filename encoding problems

Question

I have problems extracting files from 7zip archive with non-ascii symbols in filenames.

I have identical versions of 7z on two computers, which differ only by the system locale. If I compress on one computer and try to decompress on another, it fails. If I do this on the same computer, everything is ok.

Does anybody know what could be the reason for this and how this problem could be solved?

Solution

If you cannot workout getting your non-unicode locale machine to work with unicode names, you could try having the first 7z stuff it into a "tar" first. That might hide the offending filenames on the other machine.

Comments

[Breakthrough]

Try compressing the file with the -mcu flag to force UTF-8 encoding of the filenames (from the 7zip Revision History, 4.58 beta). Also, what operating systems are you using?

[lizarisk]

linux linux linux

[Daniel R Hicks]

I'm a little confused -- how does it fail? What are the symptoms?

[Dmitry Grigoryev]

Did you notice the OP is using Linux? (He should have mentioned it more clearly btw)