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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlobQ5j7hQVIGkwMWW3yKB_DWqthJcpnsQ"
+ nickname="Qi"
+ subject="Additional advice?"
+ date="2015-01-29T20:07:11Z"
+ content="""
+I manually modified `/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.0/IkiWiki/CGI.pm` removing the three lines
+
+    # call decode_utf8 on >= 5.20 only if it's not already decoded,
+    # otherwise it balks, on < 5.20, always call it
+    if ($] < 5.02 || !Encode::is_utf8($octets)) {
+
+and adding a new line
+
+    if (!Encode::is_utf8($octets)) {
+
+Then I ran ikiwiki --setup mysite.setup and see the following messages:
+
+	...
+	Aborting
+	'git pull --prune origin' failed:  at /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.0/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm line 220.
+	Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.20.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Encode.pm line 175.
+
+
+Any ideas?
+
+"""]]