I've downloaded some files using "Download as .zip" option provided by Dropbox.
The filenames contain Greek characters.
I've extracted them and all I get is this: 2013 ΧειμεÏινÏ.pdf
The files were probably named/created on Windows OS, with greek locale.
I've looked into it and installed convmv
utility but when using this command:
1st attempt:
convmv -t utf8 ./2013 ΧειμεÏινÏ.pdf
, I got this output:
Your Perl version has fleas #37757 #49830
Starting a dry run without
changes…
Skipping, already UTF-8: ./2013 ΧειμεÏινÏ.pdf
No changes to your files done. Use –notest to finally rename the files.
So, the filenames are already in utf8 but arent't properly displayed.
2nd attempt:
Searched for greek encodings and found these two ISO 8859-7
and windows-1253
.
Tried with the 1st one and got that iso-8859-7 doesn't cover all needed characters for: "./2013 ΧειμεÏινÏ.pdf"
.
So no luck with this as well.
I then used convmv --list
and windows-1253
didn't appear.
So I am out of ideas, is there something I can do to fix this?
Best Answer
This happens because default Ubuntu archive manager file-roller uses p7zip to unzip zip archives, if p7zip-full is installed. P7zip-full does not treat non-English file names correctly.
I made a PPA with file-roller using unzip program instead of p7zip. Patched file-roller can be installed by