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Comment on Zip files and Encoding – I hate you. by gobi

gobi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:49:17 +0000

The unzip command has -O and -I options to specify source filename encodings.

If archive was done on Windows u use -O option some thing like:

unzip -O sjis yourarchive.zip

-I option is used if you archived it on Linux/Unix with diffirent option.

Comment on Position on Widget Security by Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:46:29 +0000

Hi Marcos.
This is an interesting proposal. I was wondering if you have since updated your approach based on feedback from the workshop or ideas from other papers.
Were you able to find out the details of reviewer 3’s perceived problems?

Comment on Zip files and Encoding – I hate you. by O. Andersen

O. Andersen — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:15:55 +0000

Windows-1252 is actually a superset of ISO 8859-1 (disregarding control characters which will not appear in file names anyway), so your example is technically incorrect: encoding as ISO 8859-1 and decoding as Windows-1252 would work perfectly fine.

You later mention CP437 as an encoding used on Windows machines, but also say that “everyone” ignores the specification, which says that only CP437 or UTF-8 should be used. (CP437 is effectively incompatible with ISO 8859-1 and Windows-1252.) I am confused as to what encoding Windows actually uses/assumes. Do some versions use Windows-1252 and others CP437? Please clarify. (Obviously, other encodings must be used for non-Western demographics, as touched upon by another commentator, but let us leave that for now.)

Comment on About Me by …and we’re back! « Standards Suck

…and we’re back! « Standards Suck — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:43:07 +0000

[...] (Marcos) took a brief break while I was finishing my PhD and I moved to Norway to work for Opera Software, [...]

Comment on Zip files and Encoding – I hate you. by Christopher Warner

Christopher Warner — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:38:42 +0000

Blame all the programmers who think that encoding doesn’t matter and refuse to get on the UTF-8 bandwagon even though the rest of the world has long since been on the bus.

Comment on My empire for a NullPointerException – reasons ActionScript sucks by Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:16:00 +0000

You can easily pass arguments into instantiated movie clips… just target a variable in them, for example…

Comment on Zip files and Encoding – I hate you. by Todd Morrison

Todd Morrison — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:15:27 +0000

Thank you for this research.. i have been facing this problem recently.

Comment on Dynamically loading Google Analytics by Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:15 +0000

Any resolution the best way to do this for Google Analystics (ga.js)?

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Comment on Zip files and Encoding – I hate you. by noep

noep — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:19:25 +0000

Serves people right for using languages other than english.