Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z

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    1 year ago

    Different locales might face formatting problems in the filename in non Latin characters like Chinese characters or hangul when using zip. 7z helps with that.

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      Oh really? Haven’t heard of that but doesn’t surprise me

      Wouldn’t that just be a case of fixing .zip to support those characters though? Surely it can be updated