On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:58:15PM +0100, Matthew Pocock wrote: > Hi, > > I've been pulling down pages from wiktionary in a Java application. The > majority of pages seem to work fine (e.g. http://en.wiktionary.org//wiki/-a). > I can load them in Java, and if I wget them, I end up with a file containing > what I'd expect. > > However, some pages seem not to work (e.g. > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/absolute_instrument). In Java, I get a codec > exception and when using wget, the resulting downloaded file is garbled. I > think this is because although they claim to be UTF-8 encoded, they are not. > These pages show up fine in my browser, but it isn't telling me what charset > it uses to decode the text.
It works perfectly for me. Maybe your problem is that wgets saves it as a gzipped filed? The headers have this in it: Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 5486 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 And there is nothing wrong with it as far as I can see. Kurt _______________________________________________ Wiktionary-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l
