Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not clear to me that his problem would be solved in general, if > he used such an archive. That archive provides for representation of > names in UTF-8. But it's quite possible that someone will want to > extract a UTF-8 name onto a file system interface that supports only > (say) Shift-JIS names.
It's OK, because when extracting tar converts file names from UTF-8 to the character set requested by current locale. So, in this example the archive should extract correctly, provided that the locale is set correctly. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
