Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Wget should have taken the URL 'teståäöÅÄÖ' as ISO-8859-1 and convert it into UTF-8, which would fail to download.
Neither Firefox nor Internet Explorer can navigate that link. Both fail trying to retrieve teståäöà ÃÃ. I concur with Tim that this behavior of wget is accidental and should not be relied on. Perhaps it would be useful to have an option to wget to specify the encoding when a broken server fails to do so: --encoding=utf-8. If such an option were added, it seems to me that it should not override explicit encoding from the server (although the encoding option might allow the user to override even that: --encoding=utf-16,force). Tony
