Re: [Bug-wget] Save 3 byte utf8 url

[L Walsh]

Ángel González wrote:
> On 07/02/13 15:06, bes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i found some bug in wget with interpreting and save percent-encoding 3 byte
> > utf8 url
> >
> > example:
> > 1. Create url with "—". This is U+2014 (EM DASH). Percent-encoding UTF-8 is
> > "%E2%80%94"
> > 2. Try wget it: wget "http://example.com/abc—d"; or wget "
> > http://example.com/abc%E2%80%94d"; directly
> > 3. Wget save this URL to file "abc\342%80%94d". Expected is
> > "abc%E2%80%94d". This is a bug.
>
> The problem is that it checks if it's a printable character in latin1.
> There is a bug at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37564
> An option would be to use --restrict-file-names=nocontrol to get the em
> dash in the filename, instead of the percent-encoded version.
---
        Do you mean printable character in the current locale?
        Or can it not do UTF-8 at all?


latin1 is going the way of the dodo...most sites still use it, but
HTML5 is supposed to be UTF8..

If it found "González" on a file would it be able to save it correctly?