Re: [Bug-wget] Problem with ÅÄÖ and wget

[Ángel González]

Tim Rühsen schrieb:
> On Thursday 12 September 2013 12:59:00 Björn Mattsson wrote:
> > > Run into a bug in wget last week.
> > > Done some digging but can't solve it by my self.
> > >
> > > If i tries to wget a file containing capital ÅÄÖ they gets coverted
> > > wrongly, and åäö works fine.
> > >
> > > I uses wget -m to backup one of my webb-sites to another machine. Have
> > > worked like a cahrm for the last 4-5 years but a couple of week ago one
> > > of teh files came down wrong. Thought it was a college that had uploaded
> > > something wrong but after some digging it's wget that converts wrongly.
> > >
> > > I have UTF-8 as charset on my machine.
> > >
> > > If you want to test/see the problem
> > >
> > > wget -m http://bmit.se/wget
(...)
> Sorry, forget my answer.
> Meanwhile I could make some tests in an utf-8 env, and yes, Wget 1.14 (Debian
> package as well as current git) has the problem you described.
>
> I am not shure if we can change it without breaking backward compatibility !?
>
> Tim
Wasn't that problem always there?
Looks like bug 37564 [1], you can work around it with 
--restrict-file-names=nocontrol
You may find some more information in the list archives.

1- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37564