external: Disable RPC::XML's "smart" encoding, which sent ints for strings that contained only a number, fixing a longstanding crash of the rst plugin.

IkiWiki/Plugin/external.pm

@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ sub import {
 
 	$plugins{$plugin}={in => $plugin_read, out => $plugin_write, pid => $pid,
 		accum => ""};
+
 	$RPC::XML::ENCODING="utf-8";
+	$RPC::XML::FORCE_STRING_ENCODING="true";
 
 	rpc_call($plugins{$plugin}, "import");
 }

debian/changelog

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ ikiwiki (3.20100832) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * blueview: Fix display of links to translated pages in the page header.
   * Set isPermaLink="no" for guids in rss feeds. 
   * blogspam: Fix crash when content contained utf-8.
+  * external: Disable RPC::XML's "smart" encoding, which sent ints
+    for strings that contained only a number, fixing a longstanding crash
+    of the rst plugin.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:05 -0400
 

doc/bugs/rst_fails_on_file_containing_only_a_number.mdwn

@@ -24,3 +24,6 @@ throwing code..):
 > No, still the same failure. I think it's failing parsing the input data,
 > (which perl probably transmitted as an int due to perl internals)
 > not writing out its response. --[[Joey]]
+
+> On second thought, this was a bug in ikiwiki, it should be transmitting
+> that as a string. Fixed in external.pm --[[Joey]]