[delphizip] Re: Passwords in a Unicode world

  • From: James Turner <james.d.h.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:12:36 +0000

If a standard exists, my guess would be that it involves converting to 
UTF-8 and then proceeding normally, but that's just a guess.

-- James Turner

Russell Peters wrote:
> Zip passwords (pathetically weak as they are) are byte values which is
> reasonable under Ansi but how do I handle them in Unicode?
> My present conversions for C2009 & D2009 convert to AnsiString (current
> CodePage) and use that but I fear the translation makes them less
> reproducable.
>
> In theory the password must work with other programs too.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Russell Peters
>
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