Saladin vs FileVoyager

Which even supports a lot of encodings.

GPL v3.

All commands use the well-known shortcuts.

Cursor left: parent directory, cursor right: go into directory/zip.

Browsing in various display modes (like report or thumbnail modes)

FileVoyager offers a (nearly) universal file viewer, a (nearly) universal archive format support (integrated 7-zip), a (nearly) universal image and video support, a hash tool, a file and folder comparison.

Render multimedia files (including M3U, PLS, ASX, WPL, MPCPL and XSPF playlist formats)
View ebooks and comicbooks including PDF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, DJVU, CBR, CBZ, XPS, … (Powered by SumatraPDF)
Syntax highlighting for virtually any source code language/format (Powered by Scintilla)
Render final view for formats supported by Preview Handlers (like Office files, PDF, pictures, …)
Support many character encodings (SBCS including various ANSI implementations, UTF-8, UTF-16, EBCDIC)
Display in flat or hexadecimal for any format

Compare files or folders.

FileVoyager relies at once on installed codecs, on WMP and on VLC

Pack and unpack ZIP, 7Zip, GZip, BZip2, XZ, Tar and WIM formats
ARJ, CAB, XAR, Z, RAR, LZH, LZMA, ISO, WIM and many others

Usual file operations (rename, copy, move, link, delete, recycle) in the containers listed above and even between them

Browse disks, folders (real or virtual), shares, archives and FTP/FTPS in one unified way