Re: [Bug-wget] bad filenames (again)

[Andries E. Brouwer]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:31:13PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> what do we want to achieve here, and why is what wget did
> before your patch the wrong thing?

Wget modified filenames, and users are unhappy.
See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387745
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37564
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22010251/wget-unicode-filename-errors
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27054765/wget-japanese-characters
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/misc/wget.html
etc.

It is debatable what precisely would be the right thing,
but my patch greatly increases the number of happy users.
Further improvement is possible.
For example, nothing was changed yet for Windows, but also
Windows users complain about this wget escaping.

Andries