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

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> It's not clear to me that his problem would be solved in general, if
> he used such an archive.  That archive provides for representation of
> names in UTF-8.  But it's quite possible that someone will want to
> extract a UTF-8 name onto a file system interface that supports only
> (say) Shift-JIS names.

It's OK, because when extracting tar converts file names from UTF-8 to
the character set requested by current locale. So, in this example the
archive should extract correctly, provided that the locale is set
correctly.
 
Regards,
Sergey