React Native

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.

React Native

import { Zip } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  const zip = new Zip();

  try {
    zip.newZip('test.zip');
  } catch {
    console.log(zip.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // To zip using utf-8 filenames, set the OemCodePage = 65001
  zip.oemCodePage = 65001;

  const recurse = true;
  await zip.appendFilesAsync('/temp/NonEnglishFilenames/*', recurse);

  try {
    await zip.writeZipAndCloseAsync();
  } catch {
    console.log(zip.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  console.log('Zip Created!');
}