German letters and encoding in C#

Question

I have an unzipping function, and I am using System.Text.Encoding to make sure that the files that are being extracted keep the same names after extraction beca

Answer 1

Try CodePage 850 (has worked for me):

using (ZipArchive archive = System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.Open(ZipFile, ZipArchiveMode.Read,  System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(850)))
{
      // ....

The next comment is from (an ancient version) of Sharpziplib that put me in the right direction:

    /* Using the codepage 1252 doesn't solve the 8bit ASCII problem :/
       any help would be appreciated.

      // get encoding for latin characters (like ö, ü, ß or ô)
      static Encoding ecp1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
    */

    // private static Encoding _encoding = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding;
    private static Encoding _encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(850);

The last line is my change, to made it correctly read zip-files with special characters.