How to troubleshoot an error "cannot be compressed because it includes characters that cannot be used in a compressed folder."Windows 11 offers its users a function "Compress to ZIP file" in the context menu of File Explorer. However, if the name of a file includes non-English alphabets (such as Chinese characters), special characters, or emoji, the function does not work for the file but instead displays an error as shown below. ![]() ... cannot be compressed because it includes characters that cannot be used in a compressed folder, such as ... ![]() The error occurs because the function "Compress to ZIP file" offered by Windows is not compatible with Unicode filenames. ![]() You may use other third-party archiving software compatible with Unicode filenames to compress a file whose name includes such less common characters. Bandizip is fully compatible with Unicode (UTF-8) filenames in the ZIP format.
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