Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> I created a TAR archive with the 7-zip archiver of file with diacritics in 
> their name (eg. "é" and "à"). Then I opened the archive with WinRAR: the file 
> names were not displayed correctly :-/
> 
> 7-zip encodes "à" (U+00e0) as 0x85 (1 byte), and "é" (U+00e9) as 0x82 (1 
> byte). I don't know this encoding.

That's an old DOS code paged used in Europe: CP850

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850

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