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ZIP

zip -r --symlinks ../a.zip a a.txt 
  adding: a/šáčžřŠÁČÝŘŽÚ§/ (stored 0%)

Filename is stored properly in unicode.

LIST

unzip -l ../a.zip 
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  03-11-2021 14:40   a/s??a??c??z??r??S??A??C??Y??R??Z??U??§/

unzip list prints crapy chars.

The filenames are stored in zip correctly in unicode because the unzip restores them properly but I need to show the zip listing in correct unicode chars.

How do I print the listing in correct unicode? Has this anything to do with shell settings?

locale

LANG=""
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

I'm on MacOS system.

Tried all this, still the same result :-(

LC_ALL=UTF-8 zip...
LC_ALL=UTF-8 unzip...

LANG =UTF-8 zip...
LANG =UTF-8 unzip...

I've also tried all lang variants:

LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 unzip -l ../unzip.zip
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 unzip -l ../unzip.zip

All these lang variants are listed in locale -a and still produce invalid output :-(

bsdtar works fine without any locale settings.

bsdtar tvvf ../unzip.zip 
drwxr-xr-x  0 501    20          0 Mar 11 14:40 a/šáčžřŠÁČÝŘŽÚ§/
Archive Format: ZIP 1.0 (uncompressed),  Compression: none
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It should work with

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 unzip -l a.zip

UTF-8 is not a valid value for LANG. To list available locales, try

locale -a

In case en_US.UTF-8 is not listed there, try one of the ones that are listed and end in UTF-8.

I tried this on a Ubuntu system but I believe this should apply to Mac OS as well.
I also verified that I get similarly problematic outputs as you when setting LANG="" as is currently set in your locale or LANG=UTF-8 as was suggested in the comments.