Question

I am unzipping a file under Windows in a Groovy script like this:

def ant = new AntBuilder()
ant.unzip(  src: path.absolutePath,
            dest: directoryName,
            overwrite: "false")

The zip file contains files with German Umlauts in their name (like “Glück”), these file names are damaged after the unzipping. It is clear that I run into an encoding issue here. So I tried to set the encoding:

def ant = new AntBuilder()
ant.unzip(  src: path.absolutePath,
            dest: directoryName,
            overwrite: "false",
            encoding: "XXX")

But whatever encoding I tried (from this site), I was not able to solve my issue:

• "windows-1252" or "cp1252" lead to an java.nio.charset.UnmappableCharacterException
• "ISO-8859-1" just removed the special chars
• "Utf-8", "native-encoding" or no encoding lead to wrong characters

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Answer 1

I used "Cp850" and everything worked. However I had to find the correct code page with try-and-error. I would have expected that UTF-8 will work or that `”native-encoding”´ would find the right encoding as every zip tool does.