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It seems that I can't use Polish characters in post title. When I try to do it, then I can see error message: "Błąd: bad page name".

I hope it's a bug, not a feature and you fix it soon :) --Pawel

ikiwiki only allows a very limited set of characters raw in page names, this is done as a deny-by-default security thing. All other characters need to be encoded in code format, where "code" is the character number. This is normally done for you, but if you're adding a page manually, you need to handle it yourself. --[[Joey]]

Assume I have my own blog and I want to send a new post with Polish characters in a title. I think it's totally normal and common thing in our times. Do you want to tell me I shouldn't use my native characters in the title? It can't be true ;)

In my opinion encoding of title is a job for the wiki engine, not for me. Joey, please try to look at a problem from my point of view. I'm only user and I don't have to understand what the character number is. I only want to blog :)

BTW, why don't you use the modified-UTF7 coding for page names as used in IMAP folder names with non-Latin letters? --Pawel