[[!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? """]]