Handling archives with non-ASCII filenames

I have several RAR files where the compressed files and directories have Japanese text in the filenames / directory names.

Using Win XP with East Asian language support enabled, the text in the archives is displayed properly in Explorer. However, when using WinRAR to extract the files, it's own file browser shows the usual garbage you get without Japanese text support.

When I try to extract files it can't create the files and paths because of this (tries to make directories with screwed up filenames, all garbage characters).

But I kept hearing this kind of thing was supposed to work in XP (that it was just a problem with Win 95/98/ME and not 2K/XP or better)

How can this be solved? If WinRAR is at fault, are there any other free extraction utilities that handle RAR files and will cope with the Japanese text in the files/directory names? (I'm using the newest WinRAR too)

It seems WinRAR isn't using unicode. You can set your non-unicode language settings to japanese to fix it. Or you could use AppLocale.

I don't know if it's any better, but you could try using 7zip if you don't want to change any language settings.

I use PowerArchiver, as far as I've seen, it works with Japanese filenames. :) I have IME et cetera installed on WinXP SP2.