Tutorial Extract zip files with jap encoding

pk2000

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

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

Code:
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.
 
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calastread

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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
open the archive and select "Options->Name Encoding-> 932 (ANSI/OEM - Japanese Shift-JIS)" and then extract
View attachment 929355
With Bandizip
open the archive and select "Code page -> Japanese" and then extract
View attachment 929356
Did the winrar way but now i just the error "Cannot locate basic info data"
 
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silwind

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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

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

JackRourke

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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
open the archive and select "Options->Name Encoding-> 932 (ANSI/OEM - Japanese Shift-JIS)" and then extract
View attachment 929355
With Bandizip
open the archive and select "Code page -> Japanese" and then extract
View attachment 929356
This one works on Gachinko Pirates. I used WinRar. Just do as the guy said. Thanks MAN!
 

Anti-R

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how to extract zip file and encode to japanese, android rar not work, try 12x always failed