Thread: ZipInputStream Throws Illegalargument exception for diacritics

Hi,


If I run the below program with the zip file which has some files with diacritic characters (e.g 1-2GF-969##JÖN.pdf) , I get IllegalArgumentException.

My application has to support all languages. So, we set encoding to UTF-8


All languages work fine. But the problem comes when reading diacritic characters.

I tried using alternatives to zip input stream, like arcmexer, but it does not support Chinese characters.

Please help me with this.

private static void readUsingJava() {
ZipInputStream zis;
try {
zis = new ZipInputStream(new FileInputStream("C:\\Check.zip"));
ZipEntry ze;
while ((ze = zis.getNextEntry()) != null) {
System.out.println("Name of the File Is :: " + ze.getName());
}
zis.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

The bad news is that this is a known bug which seems to have been around forever, and any workarounds suggested are absurd.

The good news is that the bug is announced as fixed in Java 1.7(b57)
Bug ID: 5030283 Incorrect implementation of UTF-8 in zip package
Bug ID: 4820807 java.util.zip.ZipInputStream cannot extract files with Chinese chars in name
Bug ID: 4244499 ZipEntry() does not convert filenames from Unicode to platform

More on getUTF8String zipinputstream site:bugs.sun.com - Google Search

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Java: ZipInputStream Throws Illegalargument exception for diacritics, diacritic characters, default locale

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Hi Darryl,

Thanks a lot for your help.
This works fine with Apache commons compress and Winzip - latest version - 14.5.
I tried with evaluation version of WinZIP.


We have got license for Winzip 9 only. It does not work with Winzip 9 and apache :-)
So, I'm trying to find some alternative solutions. If you know, kindly help.