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Author lars.gustaebel
Recipients ezio.melotti, lars.gustaebel, pbienst
Date 2010-01-16.13:07:40
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So, use the pax format. It stores the filenames as utf-8 and this way you will be on the safe side.

I hope we both agree that the solution to your particular problem is nothing tarfile.py can provide. So, I am going to close this issue now.
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