Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive

Martin Husemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 02:55:06PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Personally I'm not quite sure if I want a tar tool to convert between
> encodings. Is the base encoding included in the tar file?

Officially (AFAICT) ustar format only supports ASCII, everything else
is a grey area. Best option is to use pax format, where the filename
is guaranteed to be UTF8 encoded.

Martin
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