File names with Japanese characters turn to garbage when written to a zip file using java.util.zip.*

Question

I have a directory with a name that contains Japanese characters, and I need to use the zip utils in java.util.zip to write it to a zip file. Writing the zip file succeeds,

Answer 1

Miracles indeed happen, and Sun/Oracle did really fix the long-living bug/rfe:

Now it's possible to [set up filename encodings upon creating][1] the zip file/stream (requires Java 7).

[1]: http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/util/zip/ZipOutputStream.html#ZipOutputStream(java.io.OutputStream, java.nio.charset.Charset)