Re: question on Linux UTF8 support

[Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx> 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

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