Re: [tlug] Bogus Japanese zipfiles [was: Kudos to Jim Breen]

[grb <tlug@example.com>]

Quickly on the note of shift-jis, another place I still see this is the default encoding of .csv files from financial companies.  I emailed them one to find out why they do that, but as yet no response.

Grb

On 26 June 2018 20:13:09 GMT+09:00, Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:

On 26 June 2018 at 20:10, Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com> wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
 <turnbull.stephen.fw@example.com> wrote:
 I still occasionally get zip files with Shift JIS-encoded file names.

 LoL, after many years of occasional need to wrestle those, I published this:

 https://github.com/thinrope/gentoo-nifty-scripts/blob/master/usr/local/bin/jzip

 (although it is somewhat Gentoo-related (paths), the script is mostly
 standalone)

 I forget the exact syntax, but something like

 python -m zipfile --extract --filenameencoding=shift_jis bogus.zip

 I think patching upstream (zip, p7zip) is still better, but haven't
 had urge to do it.

One day someone will publish a list of the evil things we can blame
on Microsoft, and close to the top of the list will be inflicting us with
Shi[f]t-JIS.

Jim

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