[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot open: Illegal byte sequence with a file containing a question mark

[Michael Schuster]

IIRC there's a choice of tar programs ... so: which tar are you using?
perhaps using gtar can help?

HTH
Michael

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 15:24, Flo <florian at acw.at> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with extracting a tar file.
>
> The tar file contains some files with a question mark in the filename.
>
> On a Linux Machine, the file looks like this;
> Adig?zel-Huda.jpg (a black rhombus with a question mark in it)
>
> When I extract that tar file on my openindiana 148b machine, I get the
> following error:
> Adig\374zel-Huda.jpg: Cannot open: Illegal byte sequence
>
> On the Linux Machine is ext3 as filesystem and on the openindiana Machine is
> zfs v28.
>
> Is there a solution for this problem?
>
> Greeting Flo
>
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