tar and filesystem characterset problem

[Erik Persson <erik-maillist@djingis.se>]

Hello!

I have a tar-file cantaining a large number of files. Some of the files 
in the tar-file have my national character in the filename. I guess the 
filenames are stored in iso-latin1 in the tar-file, but I don't know. 
The tar-file extracts nicely on debian.
Anyway, I want to extract the files from the tar-file on OS X 10.4 as 
well, but this fails for all files containing the national characters.

I want to preserve the file names when extracting on os x.

Any ideas?

/ep