utf-8 support seems to be working now

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Render.pm b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
index f33d6e66e..08f5e7e95 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Render.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
@@ -28,10 +28,13 @@ sub htmlize ($$) { #{{{
 		$blosxom::version="is a proper perl module too much to ask?";
 		use warnings 'all';
 		do "/usr/bin/markdown";
+		require Encode;
 	}
 	
 	if ($type eq '.mdwn') {
-		$content=Markdown::Markdown($content);
+		# Markdown does character based stuff that does not work
+		# well with utf-8 strings.
+		$content=Encode::decode_utf8(Markdown::Markdown(Encode::encode_utf8($content)));
 	}
 	else {
 		error("htmlization of $type not supported");