> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:33:37 +0200 > From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <andries.brou...@cwi.nl> > Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <andries.brou...@cwi.nl>, keis...@gmail.com, > bug-wget@gnu.org > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 05:38:39PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > Assign a character set as follows: > > > - if the user specified a from-charset, use that > > > - if the name is printable ASCII (in 0x20-0x7f), take ASCII > > > - if the name is non-ASCII and valid UTF-8, take UTF-8 > > > - otherwise take Unknown. > > > > I think this is simpler and produces the same results: > > - if the user specified a from-charset, use that > > - otherwise assume UTF-8 > > Simpler, but the results are not the same. > > If the from-charset is unknown, then any call of iconv will certainly > lead to bad results.
Not certainly, but it could be, yes. > So there are only the two possibilities: > (i) leave as-is (if that is the user's preference) > (ii) make pure ASCII via hex escapes. OK, but how is this different from what we'd get using your suggested 4 alternatives?
