ZIP file mojibake on Windows 10

[Joe Jones]

I'm using Windows 10 in English, and am getting mojibake file names in most ZIP files I receive from Japanese clients. I'm running into this problem when using both 7zip and Windows Explorer. Does anyone know a straightforward fix?

[John Fry]

I think you need to set the system locale to Japanese for programs that do not support Unicode. If you google that sentence you can get instructions on how to do it.

[Stephen Suloway]

I’ve had the same problem on Mac for years — all unzipped Japanese file names are mojibake, though the Japanese name of the .zip file itself is fine.
(My system locale is not Japan.)

I often find zipped files aren’t much smaller than the files themselves, especially for Word files and even sometimes for PPT.
The solution I recommend is to ask clients not to zip.

A cloud service such as FireStorage is a good alternative.
The sender uploads to the cloud, you receive a link and perhaps a password, and download from the cloud.
The cloud service does have the file for the day or so until the link expires, but I don’t think that’s less secure than email.

—Stephen Suloway

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> I'm using Windows 10 in English, and am getting mojibake file names in most ZIP files I receive from Japanese clients. I'm running into this problem when using both 7zip and Windows Explorer. Does anyone know a straightforward fix?
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[Edward Lipsett | Intercom]

I used this for many years quite happily.

I haven’t used it on Win10, but assume they support it:

https://www.ponsoftware.com/

Edward Lipsett

On February 25, 2020 at 13:13:47, Joe Jones (j...@djjon.es) wrote:

I'm using Windows 10 in English, and am getting mojibake file names in most ZIP files I receive from Japanese clients. I'm running into this problem when using both 7zip and Windows Explorer. Does anyone know a straightforward fix?

[Hart Larrabee]

On Feb 24, 2020, at 21:13, Joe Jones <j...@djjon.es> wrote:

I'm using Windows 10 in English, and am getting mojibake file names in most ZIP files I receive from Japanese clients. I'm running into this problem when using both 7zip and Windows Explorer. Does anyone know a straightforward fix?

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On Feb 25, 2020, at 13:27, Stephen Suloway <nmjap...@cybermesa.com> wrote:

I’ve had the same problem on Mac for years — all unzipped Japanese file names are mojibake, though the Japanese name of the .zip file itself is fine.
(My system locale is not Japan.)

This was a huge nuisance for me on the Mac until I started using The Unarchiver, a free extraction tool, to open Zip files received from clients. It has completely resolved the issue for me. 

https://theunarchiver.com

But I don’t have a solution to OP’s issue on Windows. 

Good luck!

Hart

Hart Larrabee

ha...@valley.ne.jp

Nagano, Japan

[Herman]

This may work: https://github.com/kjerk/sjisunzip


Herman Kahn

[R Freeman]

The fix is straightforward:

But that then breaks other functionality, so you will need to change the settings back again after you finish.

regards,

Robert Freeman

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:13 PM Joe Jones <j...@djjon.es> wrote:

I'm using Windows 10 in English, and am getting mojibake file names in most ZIP files I receive from Japanese clients. I'm running into this problem when using both 7zip and Windows Explorer. Does anyone know a straightforward fix?

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[Malcolm James]

If filenames have mojibake when unzipped, I second Ed’s answer below.

 

The name of the utility is Explzh. I use it on Windows 10 with great success. It’s properly supported, regularly updated, and handles Apple compression formats sensibly, too.

 

Malcolm

Japanese to English translation by native speakers

http://www.translation.co.jp

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[Dan Lucas]

I too use and endorse Explzh, which is a solid little utility.

Regards,

Dan Lucas

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[Hào Anh Lê 黎英豪]

I found this:

I had this same problem. The issue is that some international
(especially Japanese) software still doesn't format their strings as
unicode internally.

So, when the file gets saved, the filename is sent to the OS using JIS
or Shift-JIS (in Japan's case).

In order for Windows 8 to properly recognize non-UTF non-latin
character sets, you have to tell it which character set to use.

Here's how to do this on windows 8 :

Press START, type "Control Panel" and press enter.

Select "Clock, Language, and Region" then "Change Location"

This will open up a dialog box, select the "Administrative" tab.

Click the button that says "Change System Locale", then select the
language you want to use when a program can't (or won't) use Unicode.

You will have to restart your PC, but after that, you should be able
to see Japanese filenames without issue.

Hope that helps.

Hào Anh Lê

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:13 PM Joe Jones <j...@djjon.es> wrote:
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> I'm using Windows 10 in English, and am getting mojibake file names in most ZIP files I receive from Japanese clients. I'm running into this problem when using both 7zip and Windows Explorer. Does anyone know a straightforward fix?
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