"Extract Archive" not preserving character encoding of filenames

[sbaird]

We are using "Extract Archive" to extract several .zip archives containing files with Asian characters in their names. After extraction, the filenames are mangled. Please see the attached images as an example. We are using Advanced Installer version 13.1 to do this. This is a high-priority issue for us.

[Eusebiu]

Hi,

Can you please go in the "Builds" page of your project, select the "UTF-8 encoding" option from the "Database Encoding" section, rebuild the project and see if it works?

Best regards,
Eusebiu

[sbaird]

I already had that set.

[Eusebiu]

Hi,

Can you please tell me which application was that archive created with? It seems that Windows built-in archiver does not support the compression of UTF-8 files on an English machine.

Indeed, the files are not extracted correctly because of an Advanced Installer limitation. I added this improvement on our TODO list and we will try to add it in a future version of Advanced Installer. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Best regards,
Eusebiu

[sbaird]

We have used both the latest versions of WinZip and 7-Zip to create the archives. The behavior is the same. Extraction works fine using either of those tools.

[Eusebiu]

Thank you for the feedback.

As I already mentioned, we will improve this in a future version of Advanced Installer. We will also update this thread when the improvement will be available.

Best regards,
Eusebiu

[Dan]

Hello,

This was fixed in version 13.8 of Advanced Installer released on March 30th, 2017.

Best regards,
Dan