-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new parameter has been added to the --restrict-file-names option, "ascii", which forces the percent-encoding of any byte values outside the range of ASCII characters (that is, greater than 127).
This was to address the shortcoming that there was previously no appropriate way to invoke wget on URLs encoded in (say) UTF-8, if the native system encoding (or user's locale, etc) was not UTF-8. Wget's default behavior would leave most of the high-bytes intact, but _not_ the ones that corresponded to Wget's notion of a control character (in this case, values in the hexadecimal range 80 - 9F). This meant that some bytes of a given single UTF-8 character may be encoded, while others are left intact, resulting in a garbled URL (this is unfortunately still the current default behavior). One can prevent this behavior by using --restrict-file-names=nocontrol, which is great if the remote file name encoding matches your local one; not so great if it doesn't. Thus, the Powerpuff Girls^W^W "ascii" parameter was born. While I was working on this, I also discovered that the new-to-Wget-1.11 values "lowercase" and "uppercase" had not been documented, so I rectified that as well. Note, I'm not particularly happy with --restrict-file-names; it tries to be too many things (especially, now that it has "lowercase" and "uppercase", it doesn't even necessarily, um, restrict... file names), and it's somewhat complicated (some of the possible parameters are mutually exclusive with some others, but not the rest). At some point in the future, I'll probably want to provide a more general solution that gives you finer control over exactly what characters get escaped; and even better, Wget will hopefully be able to transcode file names to the current locale settings, which should be somewhat more agreeable. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpvrckACgkQ7M8hyUobTrFa0gCcDdcWC+wo+HApMgcLaKcZQTHo ojsAnR8BRoGd9+NlzS06jeVVZ91pTTEu =rrq6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
