[issue4871] zipfile can't decrypt

[Gabriel Genellina]

Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> added the comment:

Lukas Lueg> The default encoding is UTF8

What do you mean? Not inside a zip file. The default encoding is CP437 
(the original IBM PC US character set).

A zipfile password is a sequence of bytes, not characters, as defined 
in the specification. Probably this issue has to wait until it is 
decided what to do in the general case; anyway, encoding the password 
to bytes at the application level seems to be safer.

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nosy: +gagenellina

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