> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:33:39 +0200 > From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected] > > Let me see whether I understand you correctly. > > You want to do the right thing. You think that the right thing > would be to invoke iconv. Since the original character set is > unknown to user and wget, you have to guess. What could one guess? > If the string is ASCII, fine. If the string is valid UTF-8, fine. > If the user has specified the character set, fine.
Yes. > Otherwise? Leave it as it is? No, encode it as %XX hex escapes, thus making the file name pure ASCII. And have an option to leave it "as is", so people who want that could have that.
