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wget unicode filename errors

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.

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.