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Asked: 2012-03-17 03:16:56 +0800 CST

File downloaded with wget has wrong encoding

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We have a page on our intranet which is just plain/text encoded in UTF-8 and it contais insert scripts for database. And problem is, when I download this page to a file with wget or curl, my downloaded file has UTF-8 encoding but special characters(Czech language chars) are broken.

So where could be a problem?I can convert it to CP-1250 encoding which works fine(I also tried ISO8859-2, it doesn't work either), but I can't use it for db insert via SQL*Plus, because our DB is encoded in UTF-8.

Thanks a lot for answers

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1 Answers

  1. The HTTP protocol communicates in US_ASCII.

    Therefore, plain/text content CAN NOT be UTF-8: it must be encoded if it contains non-ASCII UTF-8 characters.

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