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29.1; archive-mode can not handle archive named with foreign characters

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: awrhygty <at> outlook.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.1; archive-mode can not handle archive named with foreign
 characters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:17:54 +0900

If archive file name contains characters not encodable with local
language encoding(cp932 for Japanese Windows OS),
archive-mode fails to extract subfiles.
(even if subfile name consists of only ASCII characters)

For example, open c:/tmp/test丄.zip and type RET on a entry,
emacs reports:
  unzip:  cannot find either c:/tmp/test .zip or c:/tmp/test .zip.zip.


In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-08-02 built on
 AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19045.3324)

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(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)

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Message #8 received at 65301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: awrhygty <at> outlook.com
Cc: 65301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65301: 29.1;
 archive-mode can not handle archive named with foreign characters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:13:06 +0300

tags 65301 wontfix
close 65301
thanks

> From: awrhygty <at> outlook.com
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:17:54 +0900
> 
> 
> If archive file name contains characters not encodable with local
> language encoding(cp932 for Japanese Windows OS),
> archive-mode fails to extract subfiles.
> (even if subfile name consists of only ASCII characters)
> 
> For example, open c:/tmp/test丄.zip and type RET on a entry,
> emacs reports:
>   unzip:  cannot find either c:/tmp/test .zip or c:/tmp/test .zip.zip.

This is because we run the unzip.exe program to extract the files, and
running subprocesses from Emacs on MS-Windows is limited to
command-line arguments which can be encoded in the system codepage.

Basically, this is a duplicate of bug#65300.

Message #15 received at 65301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: awrhygty <at> outlook.com
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 65301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65301: 29.1; archive-mode can not handle archive named with
 foreign characters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:09:50 +0900

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 65301 wontfix
> close 65301
> thanks
>
>> From: awrhygty <at> outlook.com
>> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:17:54 +0900
>> 
>> 
>> If archive file name contains characters not encodable with local
>> language encoding(cp932 for Japanese Windows OS),
>> archive-mode fails to extract subfiles.
>> (even if subfile name consists of only ASCII characters)
>> 
>> For example, open c:/tmp/test丄.zip and type RET on a entry,
>> emacs reports:
>>   unzip:  cannot find either c:/tmp/test .zip or c:/tmp/test .zip.zip.
>
> This is because we run the unzip.exe program to extract the files, and
> running subprocesses from Emacs on MS-Windows is limited to
> command-line arguments which can be encoded in the system codepage.
>
> Basically, this is a duplicate of bug#65300.

I have installed not only unzip.exe but also 7z.exe.
7z.exe works fine on cmd terminal.
But I can not find how to call 7z.exe on emacs with parameters encoded
with utf-8.

Message #18 received at 65301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: awrhygty <at> outlook.com
Cc: 65301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65301: 29.1; archive-mode can not handle archive named with
 foreign characters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:16:09 +0300

> From: awrhygty <at> outlook.com
> Cc: 65301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:09:50 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This is because we run the unzip.exe program to extract the files, and
> > running subprocesses from Emacs on MS-Windows is limited to
> > command-line arguments which can be encoded in the system codepage.
> >
> > Basically, this is a duplicate of bug#65300.
> 
> I have installed not only unzip.exe but also 7z.exe.
> 7z.exe works fine on cmd terminal.
> But I can not find how to call 7z.exe on emacs with parameters encoded
> with utf-8.

You can't.  It's a basic limitation of invoking programs from Emacs on
Windows, as explained above.

In reality, this is rarely a serious limitation, because most programs
users routinely invoke from Emacs on Windows don't support UTF-8
encoded arguments anyway.  But the limitation is deep, so even if we
had more of these situations, we cannot really fix this until Windows
systems support UTF-8 better (in particular in file-related APIs).

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