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

[Paul Eggert]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Yes, quite true.  However, my point (which I didn't make very clearly)
is that some UTF-8 characters cannot be represented in Shift-JIS, so
the extraction might fail.  It'd be a nice feature if tar could
optionally substitute a name that is acceptable to Shift-JIS, so that
the user can at least get the data (albeit under the wrong names).