I was just looking for Unicode aware archiving utilities and I was a little surprised that the Java 'jar' program was the only one that could create and extract archives on different platforms (e.g. from windows to Linux and back). Zip, tar, cpio, etc all just use the locale Dependant charset. Mkisofs looks like it supports specifying a different charset but jar was the only one that *standardizes* on one charset (UTF-8).
So why haven't archiving utilities standardized on UTF-8? Is there an option for pax to convert to UTF-8? Just curious, Mike -- A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and, more important, to tasks that have not yet been conceived. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
