Chinese filenames vs. Zip-Archive mode

Chinese filenames vs. Zip-Archive mode

[Dan Jacobson]

I do RET on a .zip file, and I see the index of the zip archive. But
Chinese filenames are shown as "\245\245..." instead of Chinese.

One must do (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end)
"cat") to see them in Chinese.
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Re: Chinese filenames vs. Zip-Archive mode

[Kenichi Handa]

I'm very sorry for the late response on this matter.

In article <87adda8wlc.fsf@jidanni.org>, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:

> I do RET on a .zip file, and I see the index of the zip archive. But
> Chinese filenames are shown as "\245\245..." instead of Chinese.

> One must do (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end)
> "cat") to see them in Chinese.

Currently Emacs doesn't know how to decode file names in an
archive file.  We need a work very similary to what done in
dired mode for filename handling.  Tar-mode as well.

Considering the tasks of those modes, I think all of them
can be merged into one mode.  All of them must handle files
collected by some way (directory, tar, zip, etc) and each
way allows nesting.  Perhaps merging into the dired-mode is
the best because it is natural to treat an archive file as a
directory, and it seems that dired-mode provides most
powerful features.

Then, the current filename problem can be solved just in one
place.

Is it over-ambitious?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org

Re: Chinese filenames vs. Zip-Archive mode

[Richard Stallman]

    Considering the tasks of those modes, I think all of them
    can be merged into one mode.  All of them must handle files
    collected by some way (directory, tar, zip, etc) and each
    way allows nesting.  Perhaps merging into the dired-mode is
    the best because it is natural to treat an archive file as a
    directory, and it seems that dired-mode provides most
    powerful features.

    Then, the current filename problem can be solved just in one
    place.

    Is it over-ambitious?

In principle it should be possible to combine them.  It may be possible
to use some of the code of Dired, but tend to think it would be
a pain in the neck to use that code unchanged.