wget unicode filename errors
filenames, unicode, unicode-string, wget, windows
Solution
This is a known bug in wget. The `--restrict-file-names=nocontrol` work-around only helps on Unix. On Windows, the best you can do is to use `--restrict-file-names=ascii` which will result in filenames like `Th%C3%A8me.mov`.
Problem
I am using wget (static build) on a Windows 7 machine to download a video file with unicode filename (in French). ``` wget http://someserver.com/Th%C3%A8me.mov ``` After the file downloads, I can view it in my folder as `ThΓ¨me.mov`. However the real proper name of the file is `Thème.mov`. I have tried setting `restrictfilenames = nocontrol` in wget.ini but didn't make any difference. How should I 'fix it'? Thanks in advance.