Hi all, we found some issues with libarchive and some file names when using the C locale. For example try $ bsdtar tf ca-certificates-20111025-1-any.pkg.tar.xz (from testing) The result will be "bsdtar: Pathname in pax header can't be converted to current locale." Fun fact: The package was created using the C locale. Due to this pacman will refuse to install this package when using the C locale which is used e.g. by our build tools. Ignoring the question if we should avoid packaging such file names we might have a bigger problem here: our C locale does not work well with unicode names. To solve such issues our friends at Debian introduced a new C.UTF-8 locale. This might be a better alternative than forcing e.g. en_US.UTF-8 as default locale which might have other consequences; different sorting behavior for example. Some information can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609306 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522776 What is your opinion about this? Of course the easiest solution would be to ensure that all packages only contain ASCII file names. I also wonder if there any real world use cases for using non-utf8 locales. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre