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Re: Unicode Filenames in Archives



SrinTuar wrote:
Ive also given tarballs a shot for this task, but sadly cygwin is ascii-only.
To quickly respond to this side-topic: It is possible to enable UTF-8 in cygwin in a limited way although cygwin has only bogus locale support.
Some applications, however, are able to support UTF-8 without locale support:
  • xterm works nicely in UTF-8 mode if configured properly
  • rxvt-unicode can be patched to support UTF-8 (the package includes my patch)
  • my editor mined supports UTF-8 if it finds the terminal to be running in UTF-8 mode

Because it works linux to linux, or at least fedora to fedora, and that is really good enough for me,
Its not a major issue. But I'm curious to know if other have run into this cross-platform problem, and how they
resolved it for themselves. That is, if anyone still reads this list.

How do you go about making a basic archive containing non-ascii filenames that you can have confidence
will unpack well on most operating systems.
I have been irritated by this as well but I have no general solution. May we find one together. I'll do some testing...

Kind regards,
Thomas Wolff