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@@ -7,3 +7,15 @@ I am using the latest ikiwiki(manually installed as non-root user) and CGI::Form
 这个没问题 it is not a problem on ikiwiki website though.
 
 Thanks.
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+> Is your system perhaps not configured with a utf-8 default locale? Or ikiwiki not configured to use it?
+> Make sure that some utf-8 locale is enabled (in /etc/locale.gen on Debian for example) and try setting `locale` in your > ikiwiki setup file. --[[Joey]]
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+I have installed locales-all and locale -a shows that zh_CN.UTF-8 is installed(there is no /etc/local.gen file though). then I enabled this line "locale => 'zh_CN.UTF-8'" in my wiki setup and -setup again. but that generated lots error messages "Missing constant domain at (eval 30) line 3"
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+sorry being a n00b on this thing  what else can I do?
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+> See [[bugs/Missing_constant_domain_at_IkiWiki.pm_line_842]].
+> Looks like you need to upgrade to a newer version of 
+> [[!cpan Locale::gettext]] --[[Joey]]