Artifacts, files encoding

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I have a CI flow definition which contains multiple stages (test, build, pack, deploy) and I'm passing artifacts using the built-in gitlab mechanism. The build stage produces a distribution folder which contains multiple files (js, html, css, ...), so I was passing whole folder as an argument:

artifacts:
    paths:
      - apps/web-app/dist

By doing that I had issues with encoding, some of the files were broken (characters were modified). But if I pass as an archive (tar), then I don't have any issues. Should we always pass artifacts as an archive or is this potentially a bug in GitLab mechanism?