jar question

[blueparty]

I am considering jar as general purpose, cross platform file archiver.
The reason for this is the fact that I received a set of files with
filenames in UNICODE. Unfortunately, they can't be renamed, because they
depend on each other... Can I use jar to backup them to single file
archive ?

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[Arne Vajhøj]

I am considering jar as general purpose, cross platform file archiver.
The reason for this is the fact that I received a set of files with
filenames in UNICODE. Unfortunately, they can't be renamed, because they
depend on each other... Can I use jar to backup them to single file
archive ?

jar should support UTF-8 filenames on all platforms.

But not all platforms support UTF-8 or UTF-16 filenames.

I can imagine all kinds of problems.

BTW, a googling indicates that jar will be changed to support
other character sets in Java 7. Which also suggests that
UTF-8 is not problem free.

Arne