RE: [Jazzlib-developers] [bug] Jazzlib and codepages

[Christian S. <chr...@sc...>]

Hi Mr. Bourges-Sevenier,
 
in fact, CP437 should be used.
 
However, there's been a long discussion about this and the outcome is that
jazzlib's objective is to provide as much compatibility to the J2SE API as
possible. This means in this case that UTF-8 must be used because Sun has
once decided to do so - this is a well known bug by the way.
 
If you would like to try another library which addresses this (and many
other) restrictions of the genuine java.util.zip package, then please have a
look at my TrueZIP project at http://truezip.dev.java.net . Its low level
API is backwards compatible to java.util.zip and provides many extensions
like a selectable character encoding and the high level API makes working
with ZIP files redundant by providing a drop-in replacement for the classes
File, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream and others which treat ZIP files
like directories in the pathname (a virtual ZIP file system).
 
With best regards,
Christian Schlichtherle
---
Schlichtherle IT Services
Wittelsbacherstr. 10a
10707 Berlin
 
Tel: 030 / 34 35 29 29
Mobil: 0173 / 27 12 470
mailto:chr...@sc...
http://www.schlichtherle.de <http://www.schlichtherle.de/> 
 


  _____  

From: jaz...@li...
[mailto:jaz...@li...] On Behalf Of Mikael
Bourges-Sevenier
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:57 AM
To: jaz...@li...
Subject: [Jazzlib-developers] [bug] Jazzlib and codepages


Dear All,
 
In ZipFile.java and ZipInputStream.java, there is a bug when reading file
names. On WinXP, one must use codepage Cp850 (PC Latin-1 codepage).
 
So you should replace:
    String name = new String(buffer);
by
    String name = new String(buffer,"Cp850");
 
However, I wonder if there is any indication in the zip spec about the
codepage used to encode filename so it would be more generic than using
Cp850.
 
How does it sound?
 
Kind regards,
 
Mike