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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+[[!template  id=gitbranch branch=anarcat/dev/proxy-utf8-fail author="[[anarcat]]"]]
+
 ikiwiki 3.20130904.1~bpo70+1
 
 rebuilding the whole wiki:
@@ -39,3 +41,27 @@ error: ikiwiki failed
 """]]
 
 \xe9 is "é" in latin1, it may be the last letter of my name. no clue how it got there. suspecting this is related to the fix in [[bugs/proxy.py_utf8_troubles]], since this was not happening before the upgrade from squeeze. --[[anarcat]]
+
+> Ooops... turns out the plugin *was* enabled, through the `rst` plugin. After disabling it, the crash is gone, but one page isn't rendered anymore:
+> 
+>     removing art/histoireinternet/index.html, no longer built by art/histoireinternet.rst
+> 
+> Here is that source file: http://anarc.at/art/histoireinternet.rst - and it seems encoded properly:
+>
+>     $ curl -s http://anarc.at/art/histoireinternet.rst | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 > /dev/null
+>     $
+> 
+> So I am not sure what is going on here... --[[anarcat]]
+
+>> Python is decoding what it receives from IkiWiki using the default `ascii`
+>> codec. To match IkiWiki's "all source text is UTF-8" assumption, the
+>> Python proxy should explicitly decode incoming text from bytes
+>> (`str`) to `unicode` using the `utf8` codec instead.
+>>
+>> Python's conservative default is "`ascii`, regardless of locale" -
+>> this minimizes the chance of silently incorrect decoding, but
+>> unfortunately also maximizes the chance of crashing. --[[smcv]]
+
+> > > Right, I know that. The trick is to find the rabbit hole. :P
+> > > 
+> > > And I found it. With my dev/proxy-utf8-fail, this doesn't fail anymore. Yay, a [[patch]] ready for commit! --[[anarcat]]