[Bug 246618] textproc/py-sphinx: fails to build with static bsdtar(1) after r534966

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--- Comment #11 from Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Tijl Coosemans from comment #10)
> I find it strange that tar worries about encoding.  It should just treat file names as binary data like the file system does.  How else can it handle packing and extracting /home with users using different locales?

Apparently one can package a /home like that using tar cf home.tar --option
hdrcharset=BINARY /home.  Without that option tar converts all file names from
the current locale to UTF-8.

If "EXTRACT_CMD=${SETENV} LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ${TAR}" in the port Makefile works
I would use that for now.  If more ports require this we can do something in
bsd.port.mk.  When FreeBSD 11 goes EOL we can also use C.UTF-8 as the ports
tree locale.

Dynamically linked tar may not error but it will try to convert the UTF-8
characters to US-ASCII and replace any character that fails with a question
mark so whatever fix you choose you shouldn't condition it on QEMU_EMULATING.

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