Unix & Linux

How can I correctly decompress a ZIP archive of files with Hebrew names?

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Someone sent me a ZIP file containing files with Hebrew names (and created on Windows, not sure with which tool). I use LXDE on Debian Stretch. The Gnome archive manager manages to unzip the file, but the Hebrew characters are garbled. I think I’m getting UTF-8 octets extended into Unicode characters, e.g. I have a file whose name has four characters and a .doc suffic, and the characters are: 0x008E 0x0087 0x008E 0x0085 . Using the command-line unzip utility is even worse – it refuses to decompress altogether, complaining about an “Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character”.

Best way to use a shell with Cygwin in Windows 7

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The core of Babun consists of a pre-configured Cygwin. Cygwin is a
great tool, but there’s a lot of quirks and tricks that makes you lose
a lot of time to make it actually ‘usable’. Not only does babun solve
most of these problems, but also contains a lot of vital packages, so
that you can be productive from the very first minute.