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Author lemburg
Recipients lars.gustaebel, lemburg, loewis, vstinner
Date 2010-06-09.23:09:08
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STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@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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2010-06-09 23:09:12lemburgsetrecipients: + lemburg, loewis, lars.gustaebel, vstinner
2010-06-09 23:09:08lemburglinkissue8784 messages
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