Re: Format of block output (-vR option) when non-ascii chars in filename

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Swami Kevala <swami.kevala@ishafoundation.org> ha escrit:

> When non-ascii characters are used in the filename we observe that the
> characters are output in octal (escaped by a "\").

This happens only if tar is unable to represent the multibyte character
in the current charset.  E.g. you observe this behavior if the archive
containing filenames in UTF-8 is being listed on a terminal in C locale.

Regards,
Sergey