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Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch |
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Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:03:58 +0100 |
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Heiko Voigt <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
The official behavior is to skip files that cannot be extracted on the local
system.
If you like, you may run a second extract and use the -s/from/to/ option
to rename your secific file.
Doing this automatically is a bad idea as it will never be correct for
all cases. Even autodetection is nearly impossible as there is no error
code for filenames that are "invalid" on a local base.
Note that UNIX only forbids one single character: '\0', which is the
end marker. POSIX in theory could allow to restrict this but as nobody
did so far request to add a note to the error section of open(), it seems
that there is no interest to restrict the character set in the real world.
Jörg
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- [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Heiko Voigt, 2005/12/09
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Heiko Voigt, 2005/12/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Joerg Schilling, 2005/12/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch,
Joerg Schilling <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Heiko Voigt, 2005/12/12
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Paul Eggert, 2005/12/12
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Heiko Voigt, 2005/12/14
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Paul Eggert, 2005/12/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Joerg Schilling, 2005/12/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Joerg Schilling, 2005/12/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Paul Eggert, 2005/12/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2005/12/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Paul Eggert, 2005/12/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2005/12/16