* Patch from Recai Oktaş to improve utf-8 support, it should now use proper

utf-8 for edit and other fields, and for recentchanges. There may still
  be utf-8 issues with the preferences page though.

IkiWiki/CGI.pm

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ sub cgi_recentchanges ($) { #{{{
 		styleurl => styleurl(),
 		baseurl => "$config{url}/",
 	);
-	print $q->header, $template->output;
+	require Encode;
+	print $q->header(-charset=>'utf-8'), Encode::decode_utf8($template->output);
 } #}}}
 
 sub cgi_signin ($$) { #{{{
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ sub cgi_signin ($$) { #{{{
 		title => "signin",
 		fields => [qw(do title page subpage from name password confirm_password email)],
 		header => 1,
+		charset => "utf-8",
 		method => 'POST',
 		validate => {
 			confirm_password => {
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ sub cgi_signin ($$) { #{{{
 				$form->field(name => "confirm_password", type => "hidden");
 				$form->field(name => "email", type => "hidden");
 				$form->text("Registration successful. Now you can Login.");
-				print $session->header();
+				print $session->header(-charset=>'utf-8');
 				print misctemplate($form->title, $form->render(submit => ["Login"]));
 			}
 			else {
@@ -202,12 +204,12 @@ sub cgi_signin ($$) { #{{{
 			
 			$form->text("Your password has been emailed to you.");
 			$form->field(name => "name", required => 0);
-			print $session->header();
+			print $session->header(-charset=>'utf-8');
 			print misctemplate($form->title, $form->render(submit => ["Login", "Register", "Mail Password"]));
 		}
 	}
 	else {
-		print $session->header();
+		print $session->header(-charset=>'utf-8');
 		print misctemplate($form->title, $form->render(submit => ["Login", "Register", "Mail Password"]));
 	}
 } #}}}
@@ -222,6 +224,7 @@ sub cgi_prefs ($$) { #{{{
 		fields => [qw(do name password confirm_password email 
 		              subscriptions locked_pages)],
 		header => 0,
+		charset => "utf-8",
 		method => 'POST',
 		validate => {
 			confirm_password => {
@@ -281,7 +284,7 @@ sub cgi_prefs ($$) { #{{{
 		$form->text("Preferences saved.");
 	}
 	
-	print $session->header();
+	print $session->header(-charset=>'utf-8');
 	print misctemplate($form->title, $form->render(submit => \@buttons));
 } #}}}
 
@@ -293,6 +296,7 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 	my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new(
 		fields => [qw(do rcsinfo subpage from page editcontent comments)],
 		header => 1,
+		charset => "utf-8",
 		method => 'POST',
 		validate => {
 			editcontent => '/.+/',
@@ -414,7 +418,8 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 			    ! length $form->field('editcontent')) {
 				my $content="";
 				if (exists $pagesources{lc($page)}) {
-					$content=readfile(srcfile($pagesources{lc($page)}));
+					require Encode;
+					$content=Encode::decode_utf8(readfile(srcfile($pagesources{lc($page)})));
 					$content=~s/\n/\r\n/g;
 				}
 				$form->field(name => "editcontent", value => $content,
@@ -445,7 +450,8 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 		}
 		if (defined $form->field('comments') &&
 		    length $form->field('comments')) {
-			$message.=": ".$form->field('comments');
+			require Encode;
+			$message.=Encode::decode_utf8(": ".$form->field('comments'));
 		}
 		
 		if ($config{rcs}) {

IkiWiki/Render.pm

@@ -29,13 +29,10 @@ sub htmlize ($$) { #{{{
 		$blosxom::version="is a proper perl module too much to ask?";
 		use warnings 'all';
 		do "/usr/bin/markdown";
-		require Encode;
 	}
 	
 	if ($type eq '.mdwn') {
-		# Markdown does character based stuff that does not work
-		# well with utf-8 strings.
-		$content=Encode::decode_utf8(Markdown::Markdown(Encode::encode_utf8($content)));
+		$content=Markdown::Markdown($content);
 	}
 	else {
 		error("htmlization of $type not supported");

debian/changelog

@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ ikiwiki (1.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Doc updates for git.
   * Fix absolute url munging in rss generation to support https, ftp, etc urls
     not just http urls.
+  * Patch from Recai Oktaş to improve utf-8 support, it should now use proper
+    utf-8 for edit and other fields, and for recentchanges. There may still
+    be utf-8 issues with the preferences page though.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Jun 2006 02:05:57 -0400
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:48:41 -0400
 
 ikiwiki (1.4) unstable; urgency=low