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

[Andries E. Brouwer]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 05:38:39PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Assign a character set as follows:
> > - if the user specified a from-charset, use that
> > - if the name is printable ASCII (in 0x20-0x7f), take ASCII
> > - if the name is non-ASCII and valid UTF-8, take UTF-8
> > - otherwise take Unknown.
> 
> I think this is simpler and produces the same results:
>  - if the user specified a from-charset, use that
>  - otherwise assume UTF-8

Simpler, but the results are not the same.

If the from-charset is unknown, then any call of iconv will certainly
lead to bad results. So there are only the two possibilities:
(i) leave as-is (if that is the user's preference)
(ii) make pure ASCII via hex escapes.

Andries