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