[Bug 34667] ISO-8859-1 Support Missing

[Adam Kane]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34667

Affects: file-roller (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Archives of files with ISO-8859-1 encoded filenames with special
characters are not extracted correctly into the default UTF-8 encoded
Ubuntu ext3 file system.

For example, björk.ogg -> bj?rk.ogg (invalid encoding) after extraction
from an archive with ISO-8859-1 filenames.

The UTF-8 migration tool does not rectify this problem, and the
migration tool does not work at all on partitions outside /home.

Within a UTF-8 encoded file system, File-Roller should be able to
seemlessly extract files with non-UTF-8 encoded filenames, so that the
user does not have to manually convert the filenames as a second step.

Many users are needlessly shocked to learn that they seem to have lost
all their filename encoding after migrating to Ubuntu.

If Dapper is to be a platform for business users, then this issue must
be rectified.