Support for de/encoding of tar entry names other than plain 8BIT conversion. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: COMPRESS-183 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-183 Project: Commons Compress Issue Type: Improvement Components: Archivers Affects Versions: 1.3 Reporter: Joao Schim Fix For: 1.4 Attachments: patch-tar-name-encoding.diff The names of tar entries are currently encoded/decoded by means of plain 8bit conversions of byte to char and vice-versa. This prohibits the use of encodings like UTF8 in the file names. Whether the use of UTF8 (or any other non ASCII) in file names is sensible is a chapter of its own. However tar archives that contain files which names have been encoded with UTF8 do float around. These files currently can not be read correctly by commons-compress due to the encoding being hardcoded to plain 8BIT only. The supplied patch allows to use encodings other than 8BIT using a TarArchiveCodec structure. It does not change the standard functionality, but adds to it the possibility of using a different encoding. A method was added to the TarUtilsTest junit test to test the added functionality. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira