Re: [Bug-wget] bad filename

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Wednesday 23 April 2014 15:32:47 Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 02:43:21PM +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> Wget has a serious problem. It creates by default illegal filenames.

I couldn't read that in your post before (I still can't). If Wget puts  
"illegal" characters into filenames, that is a bug and has to be fixed.

> Wget should be fixed. Of course I fixed my private source, but as
> UTF-8 filenames are getting more and more common, this problem is
> getting more and more serious.

Absolutely right, i did not argue against this.

> Someone is not a good wget developer if he thinks that every user
> can solve the problem for herself.

That is not the point (and we are not talking about code changes so far).
What you suggest is to heavily break backward compatibility. What I suggest is 
to keep backward compatibility AND give users a chance to 'upgrade' to the new 
behavior.

Believe me, I really want Wget to have an option to do proper UTF-8 filename 
handling.

> [And as I said: the solution is extremely simple, and I gave it.]

Again, technically yes (and I agree with you).
But we are not arguing about a technical solution.

Tim