Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The only reason why that bug occurred was the broken "hotfix" that >> escaped *all* non-ASCII content printed by Wget, instead of only that >> actually read from the network. We don't need iconv to fix that, we >> need correct quoting. > > yes, you may be right. but simone and i were wondering if the > interpolation of (even ASCII) data received by the server inside a > string retrieved using gettext is safe.
If that weren't safe, Wget would (along with many other programs) have been broken a long time ago. In fact, if that were the case, I would never have even accepted adding support for gettext in the first place. Prior to Debian bug 27931 I've never seen a report of Wget breaking because of interpolating of ASCII data in server output.
