On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 03:15:11PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 02:55:06PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > Personally I'm not quite sure if I want a tar tool to convert between > > encodings. Is the base encoding included in the tar file? > > Officially (AFAICT) ustar format only supports ASCII, everything else > is a grey area. Best option is to use pax format, where the filename > is guaranteed to be UTF8 encoded.
That's the default - pax extended headers are assumed to be utf-8 encoded _unless_ hdrcharset is set to binary, in which case the data is just an octet stream.
