https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378904
--- Comment #16 from Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelac...@kde.org> --- Update on this issue: I played a bit with encoding probing using both KEncodingProber and ICU. The biggest issue with this approach is that filenames are usually very short, so the prober does not have enough data to properly guess the correct encoding. One possible solution could be the following: we add KEncodingProber support in the libzip plugin (Ark's default plugin for zip files). If KEncodingProber detects one or more non-unicode encodings, Ark would show a notification to the user asking if they want to attempt to fix garbled filenames, if any. If the user confirms, the libzip plugin would then reload the archive and convert the filenames from the detected encoding to the standard UTF-16 encoding used by Qt. This "opt-in" step is required because if we do it automatically we could break the normal workflow for valid zip archives that only contain UTF-8 filenames (since again, the probing is not precise and could detect a wrong encoding for a valid UTF-8 filename, and there is the addition overhead problem mentioned in previous comments). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
