[jira] [Resolved] (COMPRESS-183) Support for de/encoding of tar entry names other than plain 8BIT conversion.

["Stefan Bodewig (Resolved) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-183?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stefan Bodewig resolved COMPRESS-183.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Forgot to close this, documentation has been completed about a week ago.
                
> Support for de/encoding of tar entry names other than plain 8BIT conversion.
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>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-183
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-183
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Archivers
>    Affects Versions: 1.3
>            Reporter: Joao Schim
>              Labels: patch
>             Fix For: 1.4
>
>         Attachments: patch-tar-name-encoding.diff, patch-tar-name-encoding.diff, patch-tar-name-encoding.diff
>
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> The names of tar entries are currently encoded/decoded by means of plain 8bit conversions of byte to char and vice-versa. This prohibits the use of encodings like UTF8 in the file names. Whether the use of UTF8 (or any other non ASCII) in file names is sensible is a chapter of its own. However tar archives that contain files which names have been encoded with UTF8 do float around. These files currently can not be read correctly by commons-compress due to the encoding being hardcoded to plain 8BIT only. 
> The supplied patch allows to use encodings other than 8BIT using a TarArchiveCodec structure. It does not change the standard functionality, but adds to it the possibility of using a different encoding. 
> A method was added to the TarUtilsTest junit test to test the added functionality.

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