+>> This seems like a bug: in principle non-ASCII in `wiki_file_chars` should work,
+>> in practice it does not. I would suggest either using the default
+>> `wiki_file_chars`, or digging into the code to find what is wrong.
+>> Solving this sort of bug usually requires having a clear picture of
+>> which "strings" are bytestrings, and which "strings" are Unicode. --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> mhameed confirmed on IRC that anarcat's [[patch]] from
+>>> [[bugs/garbled_non-ascii_characters_in_body_in_web_interface]] fixes this.
+>>> --[[smcv]]
+
+>>>> Merged that patch. Not marking this page as done, because the todo
+>>>> about using a standard encoding still stands (although I'm not at
+>>>> all sure there's an encoding that would be better). --[[smcv]]
+