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Re: [Bug-wget] bad filename


From: Darshit Shah
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] bad filename
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:59:43 +0200

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Andries E. Brouwer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> If I ask wget to download the wikipedia page
>
> http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/ש._שפרה
>
> then I hope for a resulting file ש._שפרה.
> Instead, wget gives me ש._שפר\327%94, where the \327
> is an unpronounceable byte that cannot be typed
> (This is an UTF-8 system and the filename
> that wget produces is not valid UTF-8.)
>
> Maybe it would be better if wget by default used the original filename.
> This name mangling is a vestige of old times, it seems to me.
>
> Andries
>

This is a commonly reported grievance and as you correctly mention a
vestige of old times. With UTF-8 supported filesystems, Wget should
simply write the correct characters.

I sincerely hope this issue is resolved as fast as possible, but I
know not how to. Those who understand i18n should work on this.


-- 
Thanking You,
Darshit Shah



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