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Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames)

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Demonstrates how to create a .zip archive that stores the filenames using the utf-8 character encoding. This allows for filenames of any language to be within a single Zip.

Note: utf-8 is the multibyte encoding for Unicode. When a Zip compression product declares that it supports Unicode filenames, what it really means is that it is capable of reading/writing utf-8. WinZip added support for Unicode (utf-8) filenames starting with version 11.2.

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oZip
LOCAL nRecurse

nSuccess := 0

//  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

oZip := CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

nSuccess := oZip:NewZip("test.zip")
IF (nSuccess != 1)
    ? oZip:LastErrorText
    oZip:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  To zip using utf-8 filenames, set the OemCodePage = 65001
oZip:OemCodePage := 65001

nRecurse := 1
nSuccess := oZip:AppendFiles("/temp/NonEnglishFilenames/*", nRecurse)

nSuccess := oZip:WriteZipAndClose()
IF (nSuccess != 1)
    ? oZip:LastErrorText
    oZip:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "Zip Created!"

oZip:destroy()