diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 560873c..44c90b7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ futures-executor = { version = "0.3.5", optional = true }
 blocking = { version = "1.0.0", optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1.0.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "fs", "net"], optional = true }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["compat"], optional = true }
+libc = "0.2.86"
 
 [features]
 async_support = ["async-trait", "futures-channel", "futures-core", "futures-io", "futures-util", "futures-executor"]
diff --git a/src/ffi/mod.rs b/src/ffi/mod.rs
index 9ad68d7..cac9dee 100644
--- a/src/ffi/mod.rs
+++ b/src/ffi/mod.rs
@@ -5,3 +5,66 @@
 mod generated;
 
 pub(crate) use crate::ffi::generated::*;
+
+pub(crate) unsafe fn archive_read_next_header(
+    archive: *mut archive,
+    entry: *mut *mut archive_entry,
+) -> ::std::os::raw::c_int {
+    let old_locale = set_utf8_locale();
+    let ret = generated::archive_read_next_header(archive, entry);
+    restore_locale(old_locale);
+
+    ret
+}
+
+// Change from the C to C.UTF-8 locale, allowing libarchive to
+// handle filenames in UTF-8. We restrict to change LC_CTYPE only,
+// since libarchive only needs the charset set.
+//
+// See on libarchive Website for a more complete description
+// of the issue:
+//
+//   https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/587
+//   https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/Filenames
+#[cfg(unix)]
+unsafe fn set_utf8_locale() -> libc::locale_t {
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    let locale = b"C.UTF-8\0";
+
+    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    let locale = b"UTF-8\0";
+
+    let utf8_locale = libc::newlocale(
+        libc::LC_CTYPE_MASK,
+        std::ffi::CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked(locale).as_ptr(),
+        std::ptr::null_mut(),
+    );
+
+    libc::uselocale(utf8_locale)
+}
+
+// Restore the original LC_CTYPE after extraction to avoid side effects.
+#[cfg(unix)]
+unsafe fn restore_locale(old_locale: libc::locale_t) {
+    libc::uselocale(old_locale);
+}
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+unsafe fn set_utf8_locale() -> std::ffi::CString {
+    let locale = b".UTF-8\0";
+
+    let old_locale =
+        std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(libc::setlocale(libc::LC_CTYPE, std::ptr::null())).to_owned();
+
+    libc::setlocale(
+        libc::LC_CTYPE,
+        std::ffi::CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked(locale).as_ptr(),
+    );
+
+    old_locale
+}
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+unsafe fn restore_locale(old_locale: std::ffi::CString) {
+    libc::setlocale(libc::LC_CTYPE, old_locale.as_ptr());
+}
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/utf8.tar b/tests/fixtures/utf8.tar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10c63fb
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/fixtures/utf8.tar differ
diff --git a/tests/integration_test.rs b/tests/integration_test.rs
index 94248c1..5b553f1 100644
--- a/tests/integration_test.rs
+++ b/tests/integration_test.rs
@@ -309,6 +309,21 @@ fn uncompress_to_dir_not_preserve_owner() {
     );
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn uncompress_to_dir_with_utf8_pathname() {
+    let dir = tempfile::TempDir::new().expect("Failed to create the tmp directory");
+    let mut source = std::fs::File::open("tests/fixtures/utf8.tar").unwrap();
+
+    uncompress_archive(&mut source, dir.path(), Ownership::Ignore)
+        .expect("Failed to uncompress the file");
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        dir.path().join("utf-8-file-name-őúíá").exists(),
+        true,
+        "the path doesn't exist"
+    );
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn uncompress_same_file_not_preserve_owner() {
     uncompress_archive(