check for invalid utf-8, and toss it back to avoid crashes

Since ikiwiki uses open :utf8, perl assumes that files contain valid utf-8.
If it turns out to be malformed it may later crash while processing strings
read from them, with 'Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal)'.

As at least a quick fix, use utf8::valid as soon as data is read, and if
it's not valid, call encode_utf8 on the string, thus clearing the utf-8
flag. This may cause follow-on encoding problems, but will avoid this
crash, and the input file was broken anyway, so GIGO is a reasonable
response. (I looked at calling decode_utf8 after, but it seemed to cause
more trouble than it was worth. BTW, use open ':encoding(utf8)' avaoids
this problem, but the corrupted data later causes Storable to crash when
writing the index.)

This is a quick fix, clearly imperfect:
- It might be better to explicitly call decode_utf8 when reading files,
  rather than using the IO layer.
- Data read other than by readfile() can still sneak in bad utf-8. While
  ikiwiki does very little file input not using it, stdin for the CGI
  would be one way.

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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 99f35482e..3838a3e90 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+ikiwiki (2.70) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Avoid crash on malformed utf-8 discovered by intrigeri.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:30:33 -0500
+
 ikiwiki (2.69) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Avoid multiple ikiwiki cgi processes piling up, eating all memory,