Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > > 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)? > > It has already been implemented. > > Current version of GNU tar (1.15.1) performs this conversion > automatically when operating on an archive file in pax format.
Thanks, indeed that works: When I create a .pax file (*) in an UTF-8 locale and use GNU tar 1.15.1 to unpack it in an ISO-8859-15 locale, the filenames are correctly converted. But it is hard to switch the general distribution of tar files to pax format, because - while a tar as old as GNU tar 1.11p supports pax files with just a warning, and AIX, HP-UX and IRIX tar similarly - the Solaris and OSF/1 /usr/bin/tar refuse to unpack them. Could you add to GNU tar an option, so that it performs the filename conversion _also_ when reading or creating archives in 'tar' format? Bruno (*) It's funny that to create a .pax file I have to use "tar -H pax", because "pax" on my system is OpenBSD's pax, which rejects the option "-x pax": it can only create cpio and tar archives, despite its name :-) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
