What is re-encoded?
Archive permissions, owner metadata, symbolic links and UTF-8 file paths are normalized for Windows extraction tools.
Linux2Archive compatibility utility
Convert extended Linux archive metadata into a Windows-compatible package without changing the source files.
Linux ext4 archive → Windows NTFS archive
Archive permissions, owner metadata, symbolic links and UTF-8 file paths are normalized for Windows extraction tools.
Some archives created on Linux use filesystem-specific attributes that are not recognized by Windows or Chromium downloads.
Additional filesystem profiles are available for enterprise accounts.