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Re: 32-bit rar archiver with libc6-i386 cannot convert filenames to utf8



"Max Alekseyev" <maxale@gmail.com> writes:

> If for some reason rar cannot convert filenames into utf8, it creates
> an archive only with filenames in the current locale encoding. And
> that exactly what happens with rar using libc6-i386 libraries. Under
> my debian-amd64 it creates archives only with filenames in koi8-r
> encoding (as my locale is ru_RU.KOI8-R) that are unreadable under MS
> Windows. What can possible prevent rar from converting filenames from
> koi8-r to utf8 (locale ru_RU.UTF-8 is also in my system)?

Perhaps it's looking for the gconv modules in the wrong place.  (You
can confirm this via strace.)

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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