I am using curl to reply to a topic in a vBulletin forum from a text file.

My command looks like this:

curl -b "cookies.txt" -d "title=" --data-urlencode
"message_backup_at_message.txt" --data-urlencode "message_at_message.txt" -d
"wysiwyg=0" -d "iconid=0" -d "s=" ... "
http://somesite.com/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=something" -L

Note that I just wrote "..." above because the command is too long.

message.txt has Japanese text "*大日本帝國*" inside and it is encoded in UTF-8.
Curl successfully posted the message but the Japanese characters turned
into "*大日本å¸åœ‹*" in my message posted on the forum. Other normal
(ASCII) characters look fine though. I also tried other foreign characters
like Greek letters and accented letters. "*Thére Àre sôme spëcial
charâcters ïn thìs têxt*" became "*Thére Àre sôme spëcial charâcters
ïn thìs têxt*"

I tried specifying the header Content-Type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 via -H option. I tried
adding --compressed and --tr-encoding options. I also tried different
versions of curl. All of these did not change anything.

Could somebody please help me?

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Received on 2016-02-01