Zipping/unzipping files with Japanese file names
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Shimpei Shimizu (X)
Shimpei Shimizu (X)  Identity Verified
Canadá
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Japonês para Inglês
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Sep 28, 2009

I use Windows Vista in English environment.

Recently, I received couple of *.zip files, and I couldn't unzip them with the application that came with Windows Vista. I tried PKZip with the same result.

7-Zip was able to unzip the files, but the unzipped file names got jumbled up. The contents (PDF files) were fine, but I couldn't read the file names (which were written in Japanese).

Does anybody know of a software, that can be installed in English version of
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I use Windows Vista in English environment.

Recently, I received couple of *.zip files, and I couldn't unzip them with the application that came with Windows Vista. I tried PKZip with the same result.

7-Zip was able to unzip the files, but the unzipped file names got jumbled up. The contents (PDF files) were fine, but I couldn't read the file names (which were written in Japanese).

Does anybody know of a software, that can be installed in English version of Windows Vista that can zip and unzip files with Japanese file names?

I don't want to be switching my PC environment back and forth between English and Japanese...

Please help!
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esperantisto
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Check your system settings Sep 28, 2009

Go to Control Panel (or whatever it is in Vista) and see, if support for Asian languages is enabled. I have no problem with zipping/unzipping files with kana in the names using 7-zip 9.04 under Windows XP with such support enabled.

[Edited at 2009-09-28 08:01 GMT]


 
Patricia Bowden
Patricia Bowden
Itália
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Japonês para Inglês
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Similar problem in Window 8 Mar 10, 2014

I am having the same problem unzipping files with Japanese name.

I checked control panel and Japanese is installed on my machine. However the filenames are still corrupt when I unzip the file.

I am using using 7zip, though I do not know which version. I am also running Windows 8.1.


 
Orrin Cummins
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Japão
Local time: 08:42
Japonês para Inglês
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... Mar 10, 2014

The only way that I ever found to do it was to unzip the package on a computer sold in Japan then transfer the files to my computer. Not saying that is the only way, but it was the easiest for me to do so I never looked further into it.

 
Lincoln Hui
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Hong Kong
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Non-Unicode languages Mar 11, 2014

Control Panel > Region and Language > Administrative > Language for non-Unicode programs > Change system locale > Japanese (Japan)

Also try changing language of 7-zip to Japanese.

[Edited at 2014-03-11 07:24 GMT]


 


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