[Bug-wget] [bug #53884] Can wget (and any GNU projects) avoid spitting non-ASCII on the command line???

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53884>

                 Summary: Can wget (and any GNU projects) avoid spitting
non-ASCII on the command line???
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sat 12 May 2018 08:52:55 AM UTC
                Category: User Interface
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: bliako
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
        Operating System: GNU/Linux
         Reproducibility: Every Time
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: None

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Details:

The problem is when I am using wget (many thanks for providing this excellent
and free software) from the console of my Fedora/Linux machine (console, no
X-server running) it prints various messages which contain non-ASCII
characters, for example the saved filename is enclosed in some form of
quotations. Apart from the horrible aesthetics of such decision, copying and
pasting what is inside the quotation marks (via mouse double-click) is a mess
because the marks are included in the text and when pasting to the console or
to a file, the non-ASCII characters are copied too, thus polluting my files
and making running a command via pasting fail.

In my opinion, a program using non-ASCII characters in its reporting is a
decision not to be taken lightly. There is no point to enclose a filename in
inverted commas rather than the traditional double quote. In my own aesthetics
book, this is a faux-pas but usually programmers get rid of it after
graduating primary school, circa 10 years old.

At least make printing non-ASCII characters optional via a switch.

Best wishes,

bliako.




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