[issue7693] tarfile.extractall can't have unicode extraction path
Peter Bienstman
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Jan 15 14:36:47 CET 2010
Peter Bienstman <Peter.Bienstman at UGent.be> added the comment:
On Friday 15 January 2010 02:14:30 pm Lars Gustäbel wrote:
> Lars Gustäbel <lars at gustaebel.de> added the comment:
>
> I suppose you do not have a real problem here. I thought your problem was
> that you want to use unicode pathnames as input and output to tarfile. You
> don't need that.
>
> You want to transfer an archive from one system to another. You can do that
> with tarfile already. Python 3.x's tarfile does the same as Python 2.x's
> tarfile, except that in 3.x *all* strings are unicode strings.
>
> If you have different encodings on these systems, that should not be a
> problem unless these encodings are not compatible with each other. If you
> want to use a tar archive created on a utf-8 system on a iso-8859-1 system
> that is no problem, as long as you use the pax format and all the utf-8
> characters used are also valid iso-8859-1 characters.
I think I *do* have a problem. I want to create a tar archive on one system,
where the filenames could contain non latin characters. I'm sending this tar
file over a socket to a different system (with potentially a different encoding),
where I want to extract it to a directory which name could contain non-latin
characters.
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