[Bug-wget] Bug#542145: implement punycode

[jidanni]

Package: wget
Version: 1.11.4-4
Severity: wishlist
X-debbugs-cc: address@hidden, address@hidden

>>>>> "A" == Andrew M Bishop <address@hidden> writes:
A> Hi,

>> $ wwwoffle http://www.中時健康.tw/
>> Requesting: http://www./
>> Only firefox gets it right:
>> http://www.xn--fiqx7ci2wwkh.tw/

A> How do you do that?  I can't type multi-byte chars in xterm.

with package scim-chewing.

A> Do other programs get it right as well for example wget or curl?  I
A> can't see anything in the wget man page or changelog.

curl does, wget will after they fix this wishlist item that I'm hereby filing.

A> I can only offer my most humble apologies and in my defence say that
A> it is not something that has ever been asked for :-)

A> WWWOFFLE users page:
A>         http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.9/user.html

And emacs-w3m implemented it yesterday
http://mid.gmane.org/address@hidden

I'm filing a libwww-perl bug shortly too.