7-zip was used in Windows to compress a batch of folders that contained file paths and file names that uses special characters such as € and accented letters.
When the command line prompt is used to unzip, files will go from (as an example) België.tif to Belgi#U00eb.tif
Does anyone know of a way to extract without losing the special character?
The Unicode character
U+00eb
is correct and is indeed the character ë,
so it seems that everything is working right.
I would guess that the person that is viewing the extracted files uses a wrong method of displaying the names, either using a utility that does not support Unicode, or uses CMD with a code-page that doesn't support UTF8.
For the later case, see the post Change default code page of Windows console to UTF-8.
