[ewiki] Re: problems with 8-bit filenames in ewiki.tar.gz

Well, I just checked the ewiki-R1.01e release from SF and it though
listed as a .tgz.gz file seems to be a .tar.gz file.  Once I un-gzipped
it (with winzip) I had to rename it before I could un-tar it (again with
winzip).  Not sure this is related.  I was able to extract and open the
CrearPaginas page once I had the tar file openned.

Andy

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Salzer [mailto:mario@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 5:47 PM
> To: ewiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ewiki] problems with 8-bit filenames in ewiki.tar.gz
> 
>    somebody posted a message onto the FrontPage (which 
> suddenly short after MrDialPrefixSpammer deleted again):
> 
> HEY LEUTE! DIE LETZTEN ZWEI VERSIONEN DER DOWNLOADBAREN APPS 
> SIND NICHT EINMAL KORREKT KOMPRIMIERT - ES GIBT STAENDIG DEN 
> ERROR "tar:
> ewiki-R1.01e/init-pages/CrearP\341ginas: Cannot open: 
> (null)". ZUSAETZLICH GIBT ES HIER NICHT EINMAL EIN 
> BUG-TRACKING-SYSTEM! WACHT AUF UND PROGRAMMIERT MAL WAS ANSTAENDIGES!
> 
>    run through caps lock and babelfish filter this reads:
> 
> [...] the last two versions of that downloadable apps [?] 
> aren't even compressed correctly - it always yields the error "tar:
> ewiki-R1.01e/init-pages/CrearP\341ginas: Cannot open: (null)" [...]
> 
> 
> So it appears someone has problems with untaring the archive. 
> Obviously it is releated to the extended L1 characters in the 
> above filename (spanish page version). I can only guess it is 
> a windows (cygwin?) version of some tar util (not necessarily 
> GNU).  Amusingly the above bug poster used 7-bit ASCII in his 
> message, so maybe it's just him having a guessworking system.
> 
> Has anyone had similar problems?  Does anybody know a 
> workaround other than converting filenames into UTF-8 (bad 
> idea since ewiki doesn't understand this)?
> Or should we just provide a .zip file in the future?
> 
> mario
> 
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