Tutorial Extract zip files with jap encoding

[pk2000]

How to extract zip archives that contain files japanese characters
Either:
1) change your applocal to japanese, reboot and then extract it, or
2) use winrar or bandizip, select the japanese language in the encoding settings and then extract it.
With Winrar

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open the archive and select "Options->Name Encoding-> 932 (ANSI/OEM - Japanese Shift-JIS)" and then extract

With Bandizip

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open the archive and select "Code page -> Japanese" and then extract

 

[Surgy]

There is also this Python script that can extract zips with japanese encoding (-e cp932 parameter). It also supports guessing the encoding if it's unknown.

How to use:
1. Install

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2. Unpack the script and run it as unzip-enc.py -e cp932 "file.zip".

 

[betatest001]

can someone update the links.

 

[HazumiCousin]

yeah ill def wait for an updated link with a fix

 

[Uzume]

One can also extract zip archives employing other filename encodings (which are common but are also technically violations of the

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—at least from the command line (I am not sure how to specify such from the GUI 7zFM.exe), e.g., for Japanese via Shift JIS based Microsoft Windows code page 932:

7z.exe x -mcp=932 <ziparchive>

Technically speaking, the zip archive file format only allows file paths to be encoded in code page 437 or UTF-8 (Microsoft Windows code page 65001). However early implementations did not take this into account properly and depended on default encoding of the OS, which on US DOS and later Windows was CP437. This was not always true though in other language locales like Japan. Thus such blind implementations can improperly encode zip archives when executed in such locales. This works fine so long as the locale/code paged used to unarchive remains the same as the one used to originally archive things but is an issue when it is not.

 

[calastread]

How to extract zip archives that contain files japanese characters
Either:
1) change your applocal to japanese, reboot and then extract it, or
2) use winrar or bandizip, select the japanese language in the encoding settings and then extract it.
With Winrar

You must be registered to see the links

open the archive and select "Options->Name Encoding-> 932 (ANSI/OEM - Japanese Shift-JIS)" and then extract
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With Bandizip

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open the archive and select "Code page -> Japanese" and then extract
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Did the winrar way but now i just the error "Cannot locate basic info data"

 

[silwind]

Hello!
I managed to open the ZIP-archive "correctly" without switching to the Japanese locale, using the context menu of the NTLEA program: Run with ntleas - Japanese Generic.

 

[domacleod]

Translation is horrendous, cursory look over all the translated bits would easily make it comprehensible. Game's fine otherwise.

 

[Arikania]

How to extract correctly in Linux? I'm getting the uncaught descryption error.