Re: [Bug-wget] patch: Stored file name coversion logic correction

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:42:23 +0800 (CST)
> From: "YX Hao" <address@hidden>
> 
> I downloaded the 'mbox format' original, and found out the reason why you 
> can't reproduce the issue.
> The non-ASCII characters you use is encoded in "iso-8859-1" in your email, 
> and should be displayed correctly in your environment.
> So, your encoding is compatible with 'UTF8', which is the remote server's 
> default encoding. That won't cause iconv error :)
> Think about 'UFT8' incompatible encoding envrionments ...

Maybe I misunderstand, but ISO-8859-1 (a.k.a. "Latin-1") is NOT
compatible with UTF-8.  Trying to decode Latin-1 text as UTF-8 will
get you errors from the conversion routines, because Latin-1 byte
sequences are generally not valid UTF-8 sequences.