From f07355f9cbc57e0f99c05ae98ff053489903721d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlobQ5j7hQVIGkwMWW3yKB_DWqthJcpnsQ" Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:15:51 -0400 Subject: --- doc/forum/Cannot_run_ikiwiki_due_to_Encode.pm.mdwn | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Cannot_run_ikiwiki_due_to_Encode.pm.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Cannot_run_ikiwiki_due_to_Encode.pm.mdwn b/doc/forum/Cannot_run_ikiwiki_due_to_Encode.pm.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..467df274d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Cannot_run_ikiwiki_due_to_Encode.pm.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Cross posting on Stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28709936/perl-error-related-to-encode-pm + +I have the following software: + +Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS + + $ uname -a + Linux XXX 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:36:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux + + +Perl 5.18: + + $ perl -version + + This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi + (with 41 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) + +and Encode.pm 2.49: + + $ head -n 10 /usr/lib/perl/5.18/Encode.pm + # + # $Id: Encode.pm,v 2.49 2013/03/05 03:13:47 dankogai Exp dankogai $ + + +When I use [ikiwiki](https://packages.debian.org/experimental/ikiwiki), which is a package using Encode.pm, I got the following error: + + $ ikiwiki --setup ~/wiki.setup + Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl/5.18/Encode.pm line 176. + +Lines 166 - 180 of Encode.pm reads: + + sub decode($$;$) { + my ( $name, $octets, $check ) = @_; + return undef unless defined $octets; + $octets .= ''; + $check ||= 0; + my $enc = find_encoding($name); + unless ( defined $enc ) { + require Carp; + Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'"); + } + my $string = $enc->decode( $octets, $check ); + $_[1] = $octets if $check and !ref $check and !( $check & LEAVE_SRC() ); + return $string; + } + +Does any kind soul have idea how to fix this issue? -- cgit v1.2.3