Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This problem should be solved by the 'pax' archive format. It specifies that > file names in it are stored in UTF-8. This means, the filenames are converted > from/to LC_CTYPE's encoding during packing and unpacking. > > The GNU tar maintainer is working a GNU pax program. Maybe he will also > provide a command-line option for GNU tar that would perform the same > filename charset conversions (suitable for 'tar' archives with UTF-8 > filenames)?
It has already been implemented. Current version of GNU tar (1.15.1) performs this conversion automatically when operating on an archive file in pax format. Regards, Sergey -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
