"Illegal byte sequence" when using unzip on macOS High Sierra to extract a file with Cyrillic characters
See original GitHub issueWhen trying to extract repacked.zip (created with SharpCompress)
with macOS unzip (UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP), the file with cyrillic characters in its name (Векторный смарт-объект-3.png) fails to extract:
MacBook-Pro-Alex:_ alex$ unzip repacked.zip
Archive: repacked.zip
error: cannot create icredible_mockAPI_version/ICredible/Assets.xcassets/Images/who_rated_me.imageset/??????????????? ???+?????-?????????-3.png
Illegal byte sequence
The original zip archive containing the same file (likely compressed with macOS “Archive Utility”)
original.zip extracts with unzip just fine.
This problem appeared since I have upgraded to macOS High Sierra (= was not present on macOS Sierra).
Is there anything we can do with the file encoding (i.e. use Unicode) to have it properly unzipped by macOS unzip?
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Use
open, as inopen fileWithUnicodeCharacters.zip. It looks likeopenwill call an internal OS X program that has no problem open these type of.zipfiles.Replacing
unziputility used in our script withdittoas suggested here fixed the problem.