Peter Bienstman <peter.bienst...@ugent.be> added the comment: On Friday 15 January 2010 02:14:30 pm Lars Gustäbel wrote: > Lars Gustäbel <l...@gustaebel.de> added the comment: > > I suppose you do not have a real problem here. I thought your problem was > that you want to use unicode pathnames as input and output to tarfile. You > don't need that. > > You want to transfer an archive from one system to another. You can do that > with tarfile already. Python 3.x's tarfile does the same as Python 2.x's > tarfile, except that in 3.x *all* strings are unicode strings. > > If you have different encodings on these systems, that should not be a > problem unless these encodings are not compatible with each other. If you > want to use a tar archive created on a utf-8 system on a iso-8859-1 system > that is no problem, as long as you use the pax format and all the utf-8 > characters used are also valid iso-8859-1 characters.
I think I *do* have a problem. I want to create a tar archive on one system, where the filenames could contain non latin characters. I'm sending this tar file over a socket to a different system (with potentially a different encoding), where I want to extract it to a directory which name could contain non-latin characters. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7693> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
