[oe] Locale support.

Sergey Lapin slapinid at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 22:07:00 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz> wrote:
> Sergey Lapin wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz> wrote:
>> > For historical reasons, HTTP characters are converted to 7 bits.
>> > If you see something like "%C5%BE%C5%99%C5%A1" after using wget, then it
>> > is not a bug, it is a feature.
>> No, it tries to convert, but fails.
>> So, as I see a problem is in wget itself.
>
> Are you using busybox wget or GNU wget?
GNU wget.
>
> What exactly happens?
Some characters of file name either replaced with trash or left as %xx
sometimes it is more than a half of file name. ASCII characters are fine,
though.
>
> With GNU wget you can try --restrict-file-names=nocontrol
Ah, thanks! This one is exactly what I need!

>
> I think that wget http:// should never produce files with names with
> accents, at least for most servers. wget ftp:// can create such files,
> but as FTP provides no support for charset, wget saves them as they are
> with no conversion and with no idea about charset.
Well, setting mentioned above works like charm. Thanks a lot for info!


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