At 1155388608 past the epoch, Erik Persson wrote: > I guess the filenames are stored in iso-latin1 in the > tar-file, but I don't know. The extract the files from > the tar-file on OS X 10.4 as well, but this fails for all > files containing the national characters. I want to > preserve the file names when extracting on os x.
Are the characters you are interested in preserving available in UTF8? What is your locale or your filesystem's codepage in Debian? I think Mac OS uses UTF8 for everything. It might be possible, by extracting on a latin1 fs/locale, and re-tarring on a UTF8 fs/locale, to get a tarball with the right characters in the UTF8 charset. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/
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