Re: [Bug-wget] wget / character set

[Alex Davies]

Hi,

You are correct; the problem was the UTF-8 character set used by
Google sites (which runs that site).

The solution to my problem is to run find on all files and execute recode:

find /temp/path -type f -exec /usr/bin/recode -f ascii {} \;

Many thanks,

Alex


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Micah Cowan<address@hidden> wrote:
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> Alex Davies wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am attempting to wget a page, but find that wget is mangling some of
>> the characters inside the page and i'm not quite sure why.
>
> Wget is completely incapable of mangling characters, as it doesn't do
> any sort of conversion on content whatsoever.
>
> I do see <U+200e> characters in vim... probably vim doesn't know what to
> do with those character codes. Viewing the result in a web browser gives
> identical results for me as visiting the site directly (apart from some
> coloring, probably from a CSS file that couldn't be found, and that
> issue's resolved by adding -k).
>
> - --
> Micah J. Cowan
> Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
> Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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