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+Hello,
+
+I studied this [[guy's problem|forum/Encoding_problem_in_french_with_ikiwiki-calendar]] and I propose here a (dirty) hack to correct it.
+
+The problem is that in French, for example, "December" is "Décembre" which, because of encoding problems, is rendered as "Décembre".
+
+I managed to track this problem down to an encoding problem of `POSIX::strftime` in `Ikiwiki/Plugin/calendar.pm`. I used [[this guy's solution|http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=857018]] to solve the problem (the diff is printed below).
+
+The problem is that I do not know Perl, encoding is one of the thing I would be happy not to dive into, and it is the first time I contribute to Ikiwiki: I copied and made a few changes to the code I found without understanding it. So I am not sure that my code is neat, or works in every situation. Feel free to improve it!
+
+Cheers,
+Louis
+
+
+ diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm
+ index c7d2b7c..1345939 100644
+ --- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm
+ +++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm
+ @@ -22,7 +22,14 @@ use warnings;
+ use strict;
+ use IkiWiki 3.00;
+ use Time::Local;
+ -use POSIX ();
+ +
+ +use POSIX qw/setlocale LC_TIME strftime/;
+ +use Encode;
+ +my ($strftime_encoding)= setlocale(LC_TIME)=~m#\.([^@]+)#;
+ +sub strftime_utf8 {
+ +# try to return an utf8 value from strftime
+ + $strftime_encoding ? Encode::decode($strftime_encoding, &strftime) : &strftime;
+ +}
+
+ my $time=time;
+ my @now=localtime($time);
+ @@ -123,10 +130,10 @@ sub format_month (@) {
+ }
+
+ # Find out month names for this, next, and previous months
+ - my $monthabbrev=POSIX::strftime("%b", @monthstart);
+ - my $monthname=POSIX::strftime("%B", @monthstart);
+ - my $pmonthname=POSIX::strftime("%B", localtime(timelocal(0,0,0,1,$pmonth-1,$pyear-1900)));
+ - my $nmonthname=POSIX::strftime("%B", localtime(timelocal(0,0,0,1,$nmonth-1,$nyear-1900)));
+ + my $monthabbrev=strftime_utf8("%b", @monthstart);
+ + my $monthname=strftime_utf8("%B", @monthstart);
+ + my $pmonthname=strftime_utf8("%B", localtime(timelocal(0,0,0,1,$pmonth-1,$pyear-1900)));
+ + my $nmonthname=strftime_utf8("%B", localtime(timelocal(0,0,0,1,$nmonth-1,$nyear-1900)));
+
+ my $archivebase = 'archives';
+ $archivebase = $config{archivebase} if defined $config{archivebase};
+ @@ -182,7 +189,7 @@ EOF
+ my %dowabbr;
+ for my $dow ($week_start_day..$week_start_day+6) {
+ my @day=localtime(timelocal(0,0,0,$start_day++,$params{month}-1,$params{year}-1900));
+ - my $downame = POSIX::strftime("%A", @day);
+ + my $downame = strftime_utf8("%A", @day);
+ my $dowabbr = substr($downame, 0, 1);
+ $downame{$dow % 7}=$downame;
+ $dowabbr{$dow % 7}=$dowabbr;
+ @@ -329,8 +336,8 @@ EOF
+ for (my $month = 1; $month <= 12; $month++) {
+ my @day=localtime(timelocal(0,0,0,15,$month-1,$params{year}-1900));
+ my $murl;
+ - my $monthname = POSIX::strftime("%B", @day);
+ - my $monthabbr = POSIX::strftime("%b", @day);
+ + my $monthname = strftime_utf8("%B", @day);
+ + my $monthabbr = strftime_utf8("%b", @day);
+ $calendar.=qq{\t<tr>\n} if ($month % $params{months_per_row} == 1);
+ my $tag;
+ my $mtag=sprintf("%02d", $month);