File-name encodings and unzip

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Markku" == Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net> writes:

    Markku> Colin Paul Adams kirjoitti viestissään
    Markku> (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 4.  maaliskuuta 2007):
    >> Are file-names supposed to be encoded on Linux as UTF-8 or
    >> ISO-8859-1, or is it configurable?
    >> 
    >> This system is FC5, but a more general answer would be
    >> appreciated if possible.

    Markku> AFAIK, Linux (the kernel) doesn't care or know about the
    Markku> character encoding, it's all done at a higher level
    Markku> (glibc). The character encoding of glibc is configurable
    Markku> using the locale system. Fedora is set up by default to
    Markku> use UTF8.

Thanks for that. I am using the default, I think. At least, I can see
nothing locale-related in my environment other than:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

Shouldn't unzip be taking notice of this then?
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire