FIY: libzip and UTF-8 on Win32

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 06:45:09PM +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 19 February 2015 at 18:38, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks. The user who reported the issue still can't get things to work.
> > I simply know too little about how all the encoding works on a Windows
> > box.
> >
> > His user name is something like "Große Krähe" (no, that's of course not his
> > user name, but it's like that... with the Umlaut and the space). Download
> > from divelogs.de fails because the zip file handling of the file in the
> > temp directory fails...
> >
> 
> maybe it's because of this:
> 
> On 19 February 2015 at 13:50, Andrew Molyneux
> <andrew at molyneuxfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> > FYI, I spotted a problem last night with the Win32 code I contributed - it
> > works OK when working with existing zip files, but it doesn't seem to be
> > able to create new zip files. I'll take a closer look at that this evening.

Yep, that would be consistent with our problem indeed.

> i'm now subscribed to the libzip ML, so i will ping when an update is pushed.
> at least there is development in the area.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

/D