Extract files with invalid characters in filename with Python

Question

I use python\'s zipfile module to extract a .zip archive (Let\'s take this file at http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=akvaleir for example.)

f = zipfile.ZipFile(\'a         


        

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue while running my application using Docker. Adding this lines to the Dockerfile, fixed everything for me:

RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANGUAGE en_US:en
ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8

So, I guess if you're not using Docker, give it a try and make sure locales are properly generated and set.