Many older formats, ZIP included, didn't standardise on an encoding, so they just use whatever the local 8-bit encoding happens to be. And if your system charse

Many older formats, ZIP included, didn't standardise on an encoding, so they just use whatever the local 8-bit encoding happens to be. And if your system charset is different from the ZIP creator's, you could get messed up filenames. This is just another cost of sticking to legacy formats.