Tcl

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.

Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set zip [new_CkZip]

set success [CkZip_NewZip $zip "test.zip"]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts [CkZip_lastErrorText $zip]
    delete_CkZip $zip
    exit
}

# To zip using utf-8 filenames, set the OemCodePage = 65001
CkZip_put_OemCodePage $zip 65001

set recurse 1
set success [CkZip_AppendFiles $zip "/temp/NonEnglishFilenames/*" $recurse]

set success [CkZip_WriteZipAndClose $zip]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts [CkZip_lastErrorText $zip]
    delete_CkZip $zip
    exit
}

puts "Zip Created!"

delete_CkZip $zip