Visual FoxPro

Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames)

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Demonstrates how to create a .zip archive that stores the filenames using the utf-8 character encoding. This allows for filenames of any language to be within a single Zip.

Note: utf-8 is the multibyte encoding for Unicode. When a Zip compression product declares that it supports Unicode filenames, what it really means is that it is capable of reading/writing utf-8. WinZip added support for Unicode (utf-8) filenames starting with version 11.2.

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnRecurse

lnSuccess = 0

* This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
* See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')

lnSuccess = loZip.NewZip("test.zip")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* To zip using utf-8 filenames, set the OemCodePage = 65001
loZip.OemCodePage = 65001

lnRecurse = 1
lnSuccess = loZip.AppendFiles("/temp/NonEnglishFilenames/*",lnRecurse)

lnSuccess = loZip.WriteZipAndClose()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Zip Created!"

RELEASE loZip