ŠĆČĐŽ letters in filenames get lost after extracting zip archive on Linux

ŠĆČĐŽ letters in filenames get lost after extracting zip archive on Linux

After extracting an archive on Linux, ŠĆČĐŽ letters get removed in the file names:

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To resolve the issue, specify encoding when extracting:

unzip -O UTF-8 ARCHIVE_NAME.zip

Result:

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