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Re:The .zip file specification is flawed by LukeShu on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @12:42AM (#13174120)
As caf said, ASCII is a 7-bit encoding.

However, the question "which?" can still apply. There are many encodings that are a superset of ASCII. UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII, but so are ISO-8859-X (for any "X"), Windows-1252, and many others.

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Re:The .zip file specification is flawed by joncrocks on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @04:21AM (#13174767)
Gah, yeah, you're right, I was thinking of CP-1252.

When I've had problems in the past with this it's been around windows machines, which love their own encoding formats.

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