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I'm getting a number of errors like this when running ikiwiki:

    utf8 "\xA2" does not map to Unicode at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki.pm line 739, <$in> chunk 1.

I think it's because some of my files contain non-utf8, non-unicode, or somehow bad characters in them, probably fancy quotes and the like that have been copy-and-pasted from my web browser. The problem is that I have hundreds of files, I transferred them all over from pyblosxom to ikiwiki at once, and the error message doesn't tell me which file the error comes from. How can I fix this?

Thanks  
-- seanh

> Unfortunatly, these messages are logged by perl so there's no way to add
> a filename to them.
> 
> If you run the build in --verbose mode, you should see which page ikiwiki
> is working on, and unless it inlines some other page, you can be pretty
> sure that page contains invalid utf-8 if the message is then printed.
>
> Another option is to use the `isutf8` program from 
> [moreutils](http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/moreutils/),
> and run it on each file, it will tell you the line number
> and character position that is invalid. --[[Joey]]