[csw-maintainers] off topic question about suntar

[Darin Perusich]

I have an off topic question I'm hoping one of you Solaris hackers can
help me answer. This might be right up Joerg alley since it's star guru ;-).

I'm using suntar on Solaris 10 to create archives and I've run into an
problem where when LANG is not set or set to a non-UTF-8 value like C,
POSIX, etc, then 'suntar' will throw the message "tar: invalid character
in UTF-8 conversion of 'luke�s.arf.gz'. There are a bunch of files that
have funky names, I don't know who or why, and I get the same error for
each one and they're not included in the archive.

How does suntar know whether or not the file name is UTF-8 and why
doesn't it even matter?

Thanks!

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-633-3463
Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com