utf-8 support seems to be working now

[www/ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / utf8.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn
index 822177487cb92a19111f19754ff06cac8ce7a07e..b905e4633d820dd2fd4598e6ef0cca6f4f64a76b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/utf8.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-ikiwiki should support utf-8 pages, both input and output
+ikiwiki should support utf-8 pages, both input and output. To test, here's a
+utf-8 smiley:
+
+# ☺
 
 Currently ikiwiki is belived to be utf-8 clean itself; it tells perl to use
 binmode when reading possibly binary files (such as images) and it uses
@@ -22,4 +25,17 @@ The following problems have been observed when running ikiwiki this way:
        Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/bin/markdown line 1317.
 
   In this example, a literal 0x97 character had gotten into a markdown
-  file. 
+  file.
+
+  Running this before markdown can avoid it:
+
+  $content = Encode::encode_utf8($content);
+
+  I'm not sure how, or what should be done after markdown to get the string
+  back into a form that perl can treat as utf-8.
+
+* Apache "AddDefaultCharset on" settings will not play well with utf-8
+  pages.
+
+* CGI::FormBuilder needs to be told to set `charset => "utf-8"` so that
+  utf-8 is used in the edit form. (done)