zipfile with umlaut in filename

[Patrick Useldinger]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> And why would you think that \x94 is "o-umlaut"?

I don't, WinZip does ;-)
And being compatible to WinZip doesn't seem so bad to me.

> It appears that Python puts the non-ASCII characters into the zipfile
> as the system reports them (i.e. in the ANSI code page on your
> system); winzip apparently converts them to some other encoding first,
> probably code page 437 or code page 850.
> 
> To get the effect of Winzip in Python, when adding a file with name N,
> do
>   zfile.write(N, unicode(N, "cp1252").encode("cp437"))
> and then try to open the zipfile with Winzip.

You are right, this works (both code pages, actually). I must definitely 
revise the encoding and codepage stuff... but you've saved me from 
writing a decompression program myself.

Thank you.