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</description>
<section>
+ <title>UNICODE SUPPORT</title>
+ <p>If <seealso
+ marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso>
+ returns <c>utf8</c>, path names will be encoded in UTF-8 when
+ creating tar files and path names will be assumed to be encoded in
+ UTF-8 when extracting tar files.</p>
+
+ <p>If <seealso
+ marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso>
+ returns <c>latin1</c>, no translation of path names will be
+ done.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
<title>LIMITATIONS</title>
<p>For maximum compatibility, it is safe to archive files with names
up to 100 characters in length. Such tar files can generally be