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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-183:
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The zip package already contains code that is similar to the codec in your
patch, I'll look into reusing that.
Modern (POSIX) tars support non-ASCII encodings via PAX extension headers,
which current trunk already supports on the reading side - it shouldn't be too
hard for the writing side.
> Support for de/encoding of tar entry names other than plain 8BIT conversion.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COMPRESS-183
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-183
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Archivers
> Affects Versions: 1.3
> Reporter: Joao Schim
> Labels: patch
> Fix For: 1.4
>
> Attachments: patch-tar-name-encoding.diff,
> patch-tar-name-encoding.diff, patch-tar-name-encoding.diff
>
>
> The names of tar entries are currently encoded/decoded by means of plain 8bit
> conversions of byte to char and vice-versa. This prohibits the use of
> encodings like UTF8 in the file names. Whether the use of UTF8 (or any other
> non ASCII) in file names is sensible is a chapter of its own. However tar
> archives that contain files which names have been encoded with UTF8 do float
> around. These files currently can not be read correctly by commons-compress
> due to the encoding being hardcoded to plain 8BIT only.
> The supplied patch allows to use encodings other than 8BIT using a
> TarArchiveCodec structure. It does not change the standard functionality, but
> adds to it the possibility of using a different encoding.
> A method was added to the TarUtilsTest junit test to test the added
> functionality.
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