On 05/05/15 at 09:20pm, David Macek wrote: > Hey everyone. Can someone help me understand why makepkg sets > `LANG=C` for invoking bsdtar? According to dreisner, the change was > introduced in 537a335cc724a5c7c, but the commit message there only > explains what the change does, not how it does it: It prevents bsdtar from mangling utf-8 filenames: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40762
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