[issue10972] zipfile: add "unicode" option to the force the filename encoding to UTF-8

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Support non-ASCII filenames in python32.zip (#10955): at bootstrap,
> Python 3.2 can only use UTF-8 codec (not cp437).
> 
> But I suppose also that forcing the encoding to UTF-8 gives a better
> Unicode support (when you decompress the archive).

The question is, rather, why you need an external flag for that.

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