hi anddan, and thank for reporting
i added a file
Å.txt to HFS
then downloaded the tar from HFS
when i opened the file using Total Commander, all went good.
so far so good.
when i opened it with 7zip, the character was wrong.
so i made another test: archived the file with 7zip itself. This new tar was opened finely by 7zip, but not by Total commander.
Who's right? Who's wrong?
I looked at the character's code: HFS used code
C5, while 7zip
8F.
On my system the right code for Å is C5.
Hard to say, but i think TC and HFS are right, 7zip is wrong,
because1. i checked an ASCII table on my system, and it reports code C5 for Å
2. i created a tar using the GNU Tar, a true landmark about tar files, and it used C5
(i also tried to extract the HFS tar using GNU Tar, and it worked finely)
So, i guess that could be considered a bug of the software you are using to open the tar.
But i may be wrong, and i'm open to read about other opinions.
Can you provide more information of your problem?