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"Illegal byte sequence" when using unzip on macOS High Sierra to extract a file with Cyrillic characters

See original GitHub issue

When 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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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:8
Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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mrietveldcommented, Jun 17, 2018

Use open, as in open fileWithUnicodeCharacters.zip. It looks like open will call an internal OS X program that has no problem open these type of .zip files.

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alex-swiftifycommented, Aug 2, 2018

Replacing unzip utility used in our script with ditto as suggested here fixed the problem.