How to use other charsets with tar/gzip

darchon · 09-25-2006, 02:03 AM

Hi.

I´m trying to find out how to make tar/gzip to save my files with swedish chars (iso8859-1)

Thanks!

theYinYeti · 09-25-2006, 04:40 AM

Could you explain what exactly goes wrong when you try and create tar.gz files?
I often create tar files and never had any problem. I'm French, and also rely on ISO-8859-1 (well, ISO-8859-15 in fact: roughly the same with the EURO sign added).

Yves.

darchon · 09-25-2006, 07:31 AM

http://www.nfalan.web.surftown.se/tar.jpg

this is what is happening.. The upper one is an untared folder.

so you say that there is no need to configure tar / gzip?
what else could it be then?

edit: Sorry for hurting your eyes with windows =)

edit2: fixed. this was a problem with the windows "unpack program". when i run "tar -xf" the files are named right.