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Re: NetBSD 8 and converting from UTF-8 to "current locale"

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Subject: Re: NetBSD 8 and converting from UTF-8 to "current locale"
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 23:11:45 +0200

On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 01:39:13PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> > EXTRACT_ENV+= LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> I thought pathnames were octet strings, not character strings.
> So what does tar try to convert?

It depends on the file format (variant). For the POSIX interchange
format, the extended header specifies the character set.

Joerg

References:
- NetBSD 8 and converting from UTF-8 to "current locale"
  - From: John Klos
- Re: NetBSD 8 and converting from UTF-8 to "current locale"
  - From: Joerg Sonnenberger
- Re: NetBSD 8 and converting from UTF-8 to "current locale"
  - From: Edgar Fuß

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