From c2b26aae9af38ba8c0432ff2fe3bbe4f3d91ac13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephane Thiell <sthiell@stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 18:24:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] dtar: set the locale for character handling

This ensures that UTF-8 file names are handled correctly by libarchive.
---
 src/dtar/dtar.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/dtar/dtar.c b/src/dtar/dtar.c
index 76809c1c..5f89997d 100644
--- a/src/dtar/dtar.c
+++ b/src/dtar/dtar.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <mpi.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <getopt.h>
+#include <locale.h>
 
 #include "mfu.h"
 
@@ -161,6 +162,10 @@ static void print_usage(void)
 
 int main(int argc, char** argv)
 {
+    /* Set the locale for character handling to the user's environment settings
+     * to ensure that file names are handled correctly by libarchive */
+    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
+
     MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
     mfu_init();