doc/bugs/removing_pages_with_utf8_characters.mdwn



I have a page with the name "umläute". When I try to remove it, ikiwiki says:
Error: ?umlÃ¤ute does not exist
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