[issue7693] tarfile.extractall can't have unicode extraction path
Peter Bienstman
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Jan 17 09:31:35 CET 2010
Peter Bienstman <Peter.Bienstman at UGent.be> added the comment:
> Lars Gustäbel <lars at 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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