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Miscellaneous => General Discussion => Topic started by: GiovaneDinamitardo on September 29, 2009, 11:32:13 PM

Title: Unzipping a japanese file
Post by: GiovaneDinamitardo on September 29, 2009, 11:32:13 PM

I found a lots of hent.... [ahem].... "INTERESTING MANGA"   ::) about uruseiyatsura but they're all zip files.

When I try to unzip them..... SURPRISE: "THE FILE IS EMPTY" !!!!

This is not true: the file is well full, the point is that winzip ("MY" winzip) is not able to manage japanese's file names.

Could you suggest something to use to unzip them ?

Thank you in advance.

Title: Re: Unzipping a japanese file
Post by: SonicDaMan on September 29, 2009, 11:43:40 PM

Try WinRAR. http://www.rarlab.com/ (http://www.rarlab.com/)

If that fails you, then try 7-Zip. http://www.7-zip.org/ (http://www.7-zip.org/)

I myself use WinRAR for pretty much everything.  ;)

Title: Re: Unzipping a japanese file
Post by: GiovaneDinamitardo on September 30, 2009, 10:36:18 PM

Failed both  >:(

"the file seems to be damaged or is an unknown format" says the log file.

Grrrrrr

Title: Re: Unzipping a japanese file
Post by: UruseiNeo on October 01, 2009, 01:33:26 AM

maybe its a virus >.>

Title: Re: Unzipping a japanese file
Post by: SonicDaMan on October 01, 2009, 02:03:49 AM

Quote from: GiovaneDinamitardo on September 30, 2009, 10:36:18 PM

Failed both  >:(

"the file seems to be damaged or is an unknown format" says the log file.

Grrrrrr

Yup, if WinRAR and an 7zip says it's corrupt, then it's corrupt. Did you get your hent... ahem.... "manga" from a torrent or shady looking site?

Title: Re: Unzipping a japanese file
Post by: Cosmic King on October 01, 2009, 03:55:51 AM

Do check if the file size matches with what the original source states (if it does not,then it is clearly a corrupt/incomplete file)

Another (yet very unusual) problem is that images that the Hent..."Gentlemen's Entertainment Magazine" contains may be written in Japanese symbols,making the extraction near impossible

Hope it is not the second one,Uncle Giovane

Title: Re: Unzipping a japanese file
Post by: ferrango on October 01, 2009, 03:15:56 PM

why shouldn't the program be able to extract them becouse of the file name?? i never heard of such a problem.
Uhm, try installing the japanese language support then, if the problem is related with the file name, that should fix it.
If that doesn't work too, i agree that the file is corrupted.
Which OS are you using, anyway?