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Re: [Bug-tar] filenames containing ascii > 127 don't unpack on Mac OS X
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] filenames containing ascii > 127 don't unpack on Mac OS X |
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Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:16:56 +0200 |
Alexander Z. <address@hidden> wrote:
> Reason: Mac OS filesystem calls (open, utime, etc.) expect
> filenames in UTF-8 and fail when passed raw UFS filenames.
> No conversion is attempted by tar.
Actually it shouldn't perform any conversion, at least for normal
'ustar' archives. With 'pax' format archives it is possible, I have
just added the necessary code to the repository.
> Sample tar file is attached.
Thank you.
-Sergey