Comment 7 for bug 129314

I was having exactly this issue when trying to transfer files in a tar archive from FreeBSD to Linux. I had file names in the archive containing Danish characters æøå which were causing the problem.

What worked for me was to create the tar archive on the FreeBSD machine with the --format=ustar option. Example:

>tar cfvz backup.tgz --format=ustar mydir

P.S. I did try to install the bsdtar on the Linux machine as suggested by l0b0 to see if it that utility could sucessfully extract the tar archive. While there were no error messages during extraction, the filenames were instead messed up. For example 'æ' would become 'æ'. Therefore that solution did not work.