The sub is that awfully slow, because with every extension the whole existing string is copied to an other memory location. Better once create an empty string of spaces of the necessary length an then replace the spaces with the converted doubles (maybe even faster with indexed strings instead of MI...

@MrSwiss: You can't help doing it...

@UEZ: Just consider it as a nonbinding expression of opinion and follow your way.

Working without any problems here (WinXP 32bit / FB 1.05 / FBEdit / -s console). Running from the FB folder of my data partition (D:\freeBasic\...)

If your problem is how to get an image section from an existing image, this can be done quite easy: ScreenRes 640,480,32 Dim As Any Ptr sourcepic = ImageCreate(200, 200) 'buffer for source picture Dim As Any Ptr grabpic = ImageCreate(100, 100) 'buffer for image section 'replace "marmot.bmp"...

Sometimes I wonder why a BASIC dialect doesn't have BASIC functions like FileRead$() or IsFolder () ;-) Something like this? #Include "dir.bi" If Len(Dir("временная папка", fbDirectory)) Then Print "temp folder exists" Else Print "no temp folder" EndIf

If I submit "ä" instead of "%C3%A4" I get a response saying "Spezialseite nicht vorhanden" (special site not present).

I would recommend to call DIR with all attributes set and check the desired attributes afterwards: #Include "dir.bi" ChDir "C:\Users\padawan\FreeBASIC-1.05.0-win64" Declare Sub listFiles (filespec As String, attrib As Integer) Sub listFiles (filespec As String, attrib As Integer)...

I assume you're not content with just passing percent-encoded ASCII URLs to the function? Your assumption is wrong. :-) It's all the same to me what I have to pass to the function, as long as it works. The URL that I extracted from the (german) homepage of Wikipadia already is percent-encoded (&quo...

As far as I can see, wget uses the libraries libeay32.dll and libssl32.dll. Does anyone know something about a description or header files (.h / .bi)?

caseih wrote:wget, on the other hand, retrieves the document just fine.

I can confirm that, thank you for the hint to wget. Is there a way to use wget as a library?

Same result with firewall off.

What library did you use?

When I run your DownloadPageWithUmlauts.exe I only get a console window showing "#D-U"

libcurl natively supports https, that's the reason why I'm using it.

As I read there's the same problem with cyrillic characters, too.

I read about a hack that solves that issue, but then I had to compile my own version of libcurl.

Alright, downloaded and installed the latest version of 7zip, now it works.

EDIT: Is it correct that the folder "ssddata" is empty?

I have 7zip here, though admittedly a quite old version. But as yet it was no problem.