> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:56:30 +0200 > From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected] > > > > For example, nothing was changed yet for Windows, but also > > > Windows users complain about this wget escaping. > > > > If we convert the file names using iconv, Windows users will also be > > happier, at least when the remote URL can be encoded in their system > > codepage. > > Windows does not differ from Unix - since the remote character set > is unknown and not necessarily constant, a conversion is impossible.
Windows does differ from Unix, in that arbitrary byte sequences cannot be used in file names. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx for the gory details. > I already indicated the 1-line change that fixes the Windows problems. It doesn't, unfortunately.
