* Generate XML RPC messages with the encoding set to utf-8 instead

of XML::RPC's default of us-ascii. Allows interoperation with
  python's xmlrpc library, which threw invalid encoding exceptions and
  caused the rst plugin to hang.

IkiWiki/Plugin/external.pm

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ sub import { #{{{
 
 	$plugins{$plugin}={in => $plugin_read, out => $plugin_write, pid => $pid,
 		accum => ""};
+	$RPC::XML::ENCODING="utf-8";
 
 	rpc_call($plugins{$plugin}, "import");
 } #}}}

debian/changelog

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ ikiwiki (2.40) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   [ Joey Hess ]
   * Danish translation update from Jonas Smedegaard. Closes: #465152
+  * Generate XML RPC messages with the encoding set to utf-8 instead 
+    of XML::RPC's default of us-ascii. Allows interoperation with
+    python's xmlrpc library, which threw invalid encoding exceptions and
+    caused the rst plugin to hang.
 
  -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>  Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:18:58 -0800
 

doc/bugs/rst_plugin_hangs_on_utf-8.mdwn

@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ Killing with Control-C gives the following traceback:
 rst2html on the same file has no problem rendering the file as expected. The
 markdown plugin also has no problems rendering the same file, so I'm guessing
 it's a problem with the XML-RPC interface.
+
+Sorry for the delay, this is now fixed! --[[Joey]]
+[[tag done]]