> I found that the program is unable to mirror links that 
are 
> not inside quotation marks, like (A HREF=blabla)blabla
(/A) 

HTTrack should be able to! Do you have an example ?
> Today, I found a (Hungarian) site that uses UTF-8 
encoding. 
> (Again, what a stupid thing to do, instead of using the 
> proper ISO-8859-x code page; ISO-8859-2 in Hungary!)

No no, UTF-8 is the best solution today (other encodings 
should disappear in the future, and unicode will be the 
only remaining encoding)

> links, including the names of downloadable files (JPEG 
> pictures, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents) are encoded 
> with UTF-8 and some names _do_ include national accented 
> characters. The result is a catastrophe: now I have files 
on 
> my hard disk that I cannot open, copy, rename or delete 
> using their original, long names (only the short names) 
as 

Argh. Added on the TODO list ; the workaround is not very 
easy to find (I'll have to detect encodings to fix that)