Java, Archives, Linux & Cyrillic

Question

I try to write an archiver in java, that creates TAR or ZIP archives, with correctly cyrillic file names, then it opened in linux. In windows I use org.apache.tools.zip, from ant:

ZipOutputStream.setEncoding("cp866"); 

to get it, but file roller (archive manager) in linux don't understand it. In org.apache.tools.tar method setEncoding() isn't exists. Also I try to use some other encoding, that supports Cyrillic, such a cp1251, utf-8, koi-8r but it gaves no result.

Answer 1

Your file may be creating the files correctly and the problem lies on file-roller. It's known that it can't detect filename's encoding. See here and here.

Attempt to use unzip(filenames will probably be garbled) or p7zip directly from the shell (there is also a java version - j7zip).

7zip works for me, with utf8 encoding of Cyrillic characters. File roller, Ark, and all others that in fact execute unzip will corrupt the filenames in my system.