Lars Gustäbel <l...@gustaebel.de> added the comment: So, use the pax format. It stores the filenames as utf-8 and this way you will be on the safe side.
I hope we both agree that the solution to your particular problem is nothing tarfile.py can provide. So, I am going to close this issue now. ---------- resolution: -> works for me status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7693> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com