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

[Swami Kevala]

Hi Sergey,

My locale is set to UTF-8 (on CentOS 7.7 system)

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

When I list files using ls --show-control-chars my terminal displays emoji characters properly

On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 at 00:27, Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> wrote:

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

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