>To be honest, the problem on Windows level, but, perhaps, programmatic solution does exist in Foxpro. I downloaded huge karaokebase.zip file with thousand songs in kar format. When uncompressed file and directory names are not readable
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>Æd âapßG¿F8 (&óá½Ña¿n).kar
>I am expecting something like
>АБВГДЕЖЗ.kar
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>According to zip creator he used Win-1251 encoding which, I presume, works properly when files uncompressed on Russian Windows .
>And my question whether it would be feasible at all using Foxpro ( or anything else ) to convert file names to unicode either via renaming or copying to other place.
You may try to play with Windows shell object (to do the actual renaming, because I'm not sure that Rename command would respect Unicode), and strconv() function to convert from 1251 to Unicode, probably by converting to DBCS first, then to Unicode. The locale ids are a mess - the numbers are not coming from the same table as the codepage numbers, so you may need to read the help for strconv() to look them up.
You may need to make sure Cyrillic is included on your machine - check the regional settings, available language support.