I'm writing a new .wgetrc (partly because I prefer the old school dot display to the progress bar), and while trying to type "progress = dot", I accidentally typed "progress = dog". And I thought how funny it would be if that resulted in the dot style progress using "🐶" instead of "." for the dot progress display style. Now, if it were exactly this then that would just be a fun easter egg, but I think there may be some merit in having an option in the .wgetrc to change what character the progress dot is, like "dot_character = 🐶". If that feature were implemented you'd want to filter out any control characters just to prevent mischievous or malicious shenanigans, but I think it would be worthwhile, and it would definitely be pretty cool to see a line of dog faces in my (emoji-compatible) terminal as the progress dots for a download.
Thanks for decades of providing a great downloading tool! Marianne
