X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/29507e94a46d0f2006671d31ac6812ebd0715cee..ff5d1505e34d8e7024950883f7fd493ca8ab9390:/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn index b905e4633..278fb9382 100644 --- a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn @@ -7,35 +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.) - -The following problems have been observed when running ikiwiki this way: - -* 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. - - Running this before markdown can avoid it: - - $content = Encode::encode_utf8($content); - - I'm not sure how, or what should be done after markdown to get the string - back into a form that perl can treat as utf-8. +Notes: * Apache "AddDefaultCharset on" settings will not play well with utf-8 - pages. + pages. Turn it off. -* CGI::FormBuilder needs to be told to set `charset => "utf-8"` so that - utf-8 is used in the edit form. (done) +[[todo/done]]