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Author pbienst
Recipients ezio.melotti, lars.gustaebel, pbienst
Date 2010-01-17.08:31:32
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> Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> added the comment:
> 
> 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.

If I want to extract a pax archive to a unicode path with non-latin 
characters, how should I encode the path before passing it to 'extractall'? 
would utf-8 be OK?

Peter
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