X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f50bd57bcebe08d26653299b189fe82beaea4a0f..3ab731d1e483bdb412df46dfa28f3271c9d923a8:/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn index 536ec75b2..278fb9382 100644 --- a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn @@ -1,27 +1,18 @@ -ikiwiki should support utf-8 pages, both input and output +ikiwiki should support utf-8 pages, both input and output. To test, here's a +utf-8 smiley: + +# ☺ 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). - -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: +There may be the odd corner where utf-8 still doesn't work; these are being +fixed as they're found. -* If invalid utf-8 creeps into a file, ikiwiki will crash rendering it as - follows: +Notes: - 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. +* Apache "AddDefaultCharset on" settings will not play well with utf-8 + pages. Turn it off. - In this example, a literal 0x97 character had gotten into a markdown - file. - - Here, let's put one in this file: "—" +[[todo/done]]