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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Does_not_support_non-UTF8_files.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Does_not_support_non-UTF8_files.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..29f8c4177 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Does_not_support_non-UTF8_files.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Ikiwiki does not seem to support non-UTF-8 file content, although there's no reason it should assume anything other than ASCII-compatibility from the encoding, at least if the Web interface is not used. It suffices that users use the same encoding as the templates specify. If I try to run it on `.mdwn` with content in a ISO-8859-1 format, I get: + + Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x74, immediately after start byte 0xe4) in substitution iterator at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki.pm line 640. + +I hope Ikiwiki is not part of the UTF-8 monoculturist movement... |