Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch

[Heiko Voigt]

On 11.12.2005, at 12:26pm, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Bote that only the portable 7 bit ASCII charset grants you that 
> > extraction
> > is possible anywhere.
>
> s/Bote/Note/

Thats basically what I am suggesting. If an attempt to write the 
correct characterset fail, tar should switch to the printable ASCII 
chars only and have some substitution mechanism for the unknown 
characters.

Heiko