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@@ -19,4 +19,24 @@ I can't build my ikiwiki 1.40 backport for Debian 'sarge':
 
 This is because of an old version of Locale::gettext which doesn't
 include the OO interface. I had this problem too, but installing a
-new version of Locale::gettext fixed it. --Ethan
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+new version of Locale::gettext fixed it. --Ethan
+
+> I suppose I should document it needing a new enough version. Or find a
+> way to use the non-OO version while still getting proper UTF-8 strings,
+> which is why I began to use the OO version in the first place..
+> 
+> Looks like the OO interface was added in version 1.04
+> 
+> And there's no good way to get utf-8 strings w/o the OO interface, that I
+> can see.
+> 
+> So, what I've done is documented that it needs Locale::gettext 1.04, and
+> made it not crash if run with an older version, though it also won't
+> gettext anything in that case. Might be a bit confusing if someone misses
+> the docs about it needing the newer version and wonders why gettext
+> doesn't work, but I consider it good enough to mark this [[bugs/done]]. 
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks for the hint, guys! :) I've just backported liblocale-gettext-perl
+>> 1.05 package and it seems that now I can build my ikiwiki successfully
+>> and it even works :) --Pawel
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