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diff --git a/doc/bugs/removing_pages_with_utf8_characters.mdwn b/doc/bugs/removing_pages_with_utf8_characters.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0d96aa75f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/removing_pages_with_utf8_characters.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +I have a page with the name "umläute". When I try to remove it, ikiwiki says: + +Error: ?umläute does not exist + +> I'm curious about the '?' in the "?umläute" message. Suggests that the +> filename starts with another strange character. Can I get a copy of a +> git repository or tarball containing this file? --[[Joey]] + +I wrote the following patch, which seems to work on my machine. I'm running on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE with ikiwiki-3.20100102.3 and perl-5.8.9_3. + + --- remove.pm.orig 2009-12-14 23:26:20.000000000 +0100 + +++ remove.pm 2010-01-18 17:49:39.000000000 +0100 + @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ + # and that the user is allowed to edit(/remove) it. + my @files; + foreach my $page (@pages) { + + $page = Encode::decode_utf8($page); + check_canremove($page, $q, $session); + + # This untaint is safe because of the + + +> The problem with this patch is that, in a recent fix to the same +> plugin, I made `@pages` come from `$form->field("page")`, and +> that, in turn is already run through `decode_form_utf8` just above the +> code you patched. So I need to understand why that is apparently not +> working for you. (It works fine for me, even when deleting a file named +> "umläute" --[[Joey]] + +---- + +> Update, having looked at the file in the src of the wiki that +> is causing trouble for remove, it is: `uml\303\203\302\244ute.mdwn` +> And that is not utf-8 encoded, which, represented the same +> would be: `uml\303\244ute.mdwn` +> +> I think it's doubly-utf-8 encoded, which perhaps explains why the above +> patch works around the problem (since the page name gets doubly-decoded +> with it). The patch doesn't fix related problems when using remove, etc. +> +> Apparently, on apoca's system, perl encodes filenames differently +> depending on locale settings. On mine, it does not. Ie, this perl +> program always creates a file named `uml\303\244ute`, no matter +> whether I run it with LANG="" or LANG="en_US.UTF-8": +> +> perl -e 'use IkiWiki; writefile("umläute", "./", "baz")' +> +> Remains to be seen if this is due to the older version of perl used +> there, or perhaps FreeBSD itself. --[[Joey]] +> +> Update: Perl 5.10 fixed the problem. --[[Joey]] |