On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 04:02:15PM +0100, grimpen wrote: > if this is not a bug, what is the fix? > > $ cat dlx > http://imaginäreseigentum.de/de/html/index.html > > $ wget -N -i dlx > Incomplete or invalid multibyte sequence encountered > --2014-05-07 15:16:02-- > http://imagin%E4reseigentum.de/de/html/index.html > idn_decode failed (9): `System iconv failed' > Resolving imagin\344reseigentum.de... failed: Parameter string not > correctly encoded. > > $ echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8
You have coded ä as %E4 in the file dlx. That is latin-1 aka ISO 8859-1. But you promised that you are using en_US.UTF-8. In UTF-8 ä is coded as 0xc3 0xa4. If I try your URL, encoded in UTF-8, all is well.
