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I'm getting a number of errors like this when running ikiwiki:

utf8 "\xA2" does not map to Unicode at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki.pm line 739, <$in> chunk 1.

I think it's because some of my files contain non-utf8, non-unicode, or somehow bad characters in them, probably fancy quotes and the like that have been copy-and-pasted from my web browser. The problem is that I have hundreds of files, I transferred them all over from pyblosxom to ikiwiki at once, and the error message doesn't tell me which file the error comes from. How can I fix this?

Thanks
-- seanh

Unfortunatly, these messages are logged by perl so there's no way to add a filename to them.

If you run the build in --verbose mode, you should see which page ikiwiki is working on, and unless it inlines some other page, you can be pretty sure that page contains invalid utf-8 if the message is then printed.

Another option is to use the isutf8 program from moreutils](http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/moreutils/), and run it on each file, it will tell you the line number and character position that is invalid. --[[Joey]]