Control: tag -1 - unreproducible + confirmed upstream
Control: retitle -1 links: No option to specify charset on command-line
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Hi Julian,
Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Your file, at least how it arrived by mail here, contains an
> > ISO-Latin-1 character, which shows as circled question mark on an
> > UTF-8 using terminal if you just do a "cat a.html". (Can you confirm
> > that for your terminals?)
>
> Ah, so that is presumably why you dion't see the same as me: it was
> garbled in transit. I'm attaching a gzipped version; hopefully this
> will reach you intact: it should be UTF-8 encoded.
Much better. I can now reproduce this issue.
> And maybe this is what links is then doing: it is trying to
> interpret both bytes of the UTF-8 file separately. (In the context
> in which I was originally using it, the file was a MIME attachment,
> and the MIME headers specified the UTF-8 encoding.)
Hrm. Indeed. But the issue is gone again if I add the following lines
after "<html>":
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
</head>
> So if links can handle UTF-8 encoded files, it would be very useful to
> also have a command-line flag to specify the encoding.
That's the actual issue. There seems no chance to pass the charset on
the commandline. I'll forward this to upstream.
Regards, Axel
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