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I'll remove the special characters next update.

Just a heads up, this sounds like an encoding issue, and even if you change this filename it’s likely to cause future issues.

What’s almost 100% going on here is that the filenames are getting mangled on decompression, as unicode support/implementation in ZIP is kind of a shitshow.

Basically, by default ZIP assumes the encoding of the system you’re extracting to is the same as the encoding on the system that made the archive so when you open it on Linux (an OS that’s bothered to properly implement unicode) stuff gets screwy.

Rather than renaming the file I strongly suggest using software that encodes in UTF-8 by default (PeaZip does this.

7-Zip doesn’t seem to and requires a special option set that would probably be too annoying to figure out if you aren’t the kind of nerd I am.

This shouldn’t cause any issues for computers that are newer than Y2K lol.

This should fix the issue this person is having but do a test with the default windows extractor.

Create your archive with PeaZip, extract it with windows, and make sure the filename is correct. If everything looks good you should then always use PeaZip (or other software known to probably encode in UTF-8) to create your archives and never have this issue again.

I see SO MANY troubleshooting threads caused by this EXACT problem and unfortunately the only solution is using better software.