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IIRC there was some issue with non-Latin characters in filenames in zips on older Windows.

The details escape me, but I live somewhere with a non-Latin script and it rars were very popular here ten-fifteen years ago for this reason.

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Many older formats, ZIP included, didn't standardise on an encoding, so they just use whatever the local 8-bit encoding happens to be. And if your system charset is different from the ZIP creator's, you could get messed up filenames.

This is just another cost of sticking to legacy formats.

That's interesting! I feel like I've run into that as well pulling down a repo or something at some point!

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