Danilo Segan wrote: > what are we > going to do with filenames extracted from eg. a tar file? If I send > them a tar file with UTF-8 (or KOI8-R) encoded filenames, they're > going to see a mess (or get their terminal to hang).
This problem should be solved by the 'pax' archive format. It specifies that file names in it are stored in UTF-8. This means, the filenames are converted from/to LC_CTYPE's encoding during packing and unpacking. The GNU tar maintainer is working a GNU pax program. Maybe he will also provide a command-line option for GNU tar that would perform the same filename charset conversions (suitable for 'tar' archives with UTF-8 filenames)? Bruno -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
