X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/282893be819eab14f3a2078f1741ec9c9ed363b1..272d99bf0720265a9422c9dc2cba844c155b0513:/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn index 68195b729..278fb9382 100644 --- a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn @@ -7,22 +7,12 @@ Currently ikiwiki is belived to be utf-8 clean itself; it tells perl to use binmode when reading possibly binary files (such as images) and it uses utf-8 compatable regexps etc. -utf-8 IO is not enabled by default though. While you can probably embed -utf-8 in pages anyway, ikiwiki will not treat it right in the cases where -it deals with things on a per-character basis (mostly when escaping and -de-escaping special characters in filenames). +There may be the odd corner where utf-8 still doesn't work; these are being +fixed as they're found. -To enable utf-8, edit ikiwiki and add -CSD to the perl hashbang line. -(This should probably be configurable via a --utf8 or better --encoding= -switch.) +Notes: -The following problems have been observed when running ikiwiki this way: +* Apache "AddDefaultCharset on" settings will not play well with utf-8 + pages. Turn it off. -* If invalid utf-8 creeps into a file, ikiwiki will crash rendering it as - follows: - - Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x97, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /usr/bin/markdown line 1317. - Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/bin/markdown line 1317. - - In this example, a literal 0x97 character had gotten into a markdown - file. +[[todo/done]]