I have TC configured to use external rar.exe. Recently I got an archive (a Linux one?) where the first file had '?' in the name. When I try to extract it with RAR, it reports error, but fails over by replacing it with '_', then continues extraction.
TC doesn't notice the failover and just stops as if the archive was broken.
Windows doesn't support filenames with '?' in names.
'?' and '*' chars in Windows are mask-defining chars.
Maybe your '?' is just some Unicode char that you see as '?'? So your non-Unicode program won't handle it anyway. Just try to rename file and all should work fine.
Yes, I know that '?' is not allowed Windows' file names, that's why I suggested that it might be a Linux file.
I unpacked the archive using rar alone, (and rar renamed it) but I think that TC should be able to handle such situations itself.
If your rar.exe is non-Unicode, it can't operate with non-Unicode characters. I think TC can't do something here.
Which RAR version did you use for unpacking - console or GUI?
Console. But it's not related to Unicode. Just an hour ago I found another archive with similar, yet different issue - there were files in a subdirectory, which name ended with ' ' (space).
Again, rar dealt with it by replacing ' ' with '_', but TC cancelled extraction.
Unfortunately I have no direct control on unpacking RAR files - it's handled by unrar.dll provided by the RAR author. For external unpacking, you may try using winrar.exe instead of rar.exe, it may be able to unpack the file.
RAR can unpack such files. And does so, but returns error code because it has to use FS workarounds. At this point, TC stops extraction, though it should continue and just warn user at the end.
