STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: "The gzip format (defined in RFC 1952) allows storing the original filename (without the .gz suffix) in an additional field in the header (the FNAME field). Latin-1 (iso-8859-1) is required."
Hum, it looks like the author of the gzip program (on Linux Fedora 16) didn't read the RFC! $ tar -cvf hého.tar README README $ gzip hého.tar $ hachoir-urwid ~/prog/python/default/hého.tar.gz 0) file:/home/haypo/prog/python/default/hého.tar.gz: ... 0) signature= "\x1f\x8b": GZip file signature (\x1F\x8B) (2 bytes) 2) compression= deflate: Compression method (1 byte) 3.0) is_text= False: File content is probably ASCII text (1 bit) 3.1) has_crc16= False: Header CRC16 (1 bit) 3.2) has_extra= False: Extra informations (variable size) (1 bit) 3.3) has_filename= True: Contains filename? (1 bit) 3.4) has_comment= False: Contains comment? (1 bit) 3.5) reserved[0]= <null> (3 bits) 4) mtime= 2011-12-21 19:34:54: Modification time (4 bytes) 8.0) reserved[1]= <null> (1 bit) 8.1) slowest= False: Compressor used maximum compression (slowest) (1 bit) 8.2) fastest= False: Compressor used the fastest compression (1 bit) 8.3) reserved[2]= <null> (5 bits) 9) os= Unix: Operating system (1 byte) 10) filename= "hého.tar": Filename (10 bytes) Raw display: 10) filename= "h\xc3\xa9ho.tar\0": Filename (10 bytes) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13639> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
