Corrupt HTML files

[Andrew Bartlett]

Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> 
> Jan-Yun Lou (loujanyun at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've been experiencing some strange problems lately.
> > Sometimes when I save a html document from the web
> > onto my hard-drive and then try to open it later all I
> > get is rubbish symbols.
> [--- snip ---]
> 
> Are you sure its actual corruption?  Sounds a lot to me like its simply
> saving the pages in an alternate charater set, I'd fathom a guess at
> UTF-8 or UTF-16.

Or possilby gziped?  Some sites are starting to use this, so it might be
that the it isn't being decoded for the save.

Andrew Bartlett

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