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]]