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authorLars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de>2011-10-14 10:46:40 (GMT)
committerLars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de>2011-10-14 10:46:40 (GMT)
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Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of base-256 number fields in tarfile.
The nti() function that converts a number field from a tar header to a number failed to decode GNU tar specific base-256 fields. I also added support for decoding and encoding negative base-256 number fields.
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Library
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+- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
+ fields in tarfile.
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- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
instead of the locale encoding.