force valid utf8 for older versions of pandoc that barf on illegal utf-8 bytes.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/static_page.rb b/lib/static_page.rb
index 6ad0c51..91032c7 100644
--- a/lib/static_page.rb
+++ b/lib/static_page.rb
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ require 'i18n'
 require 'pathname'
 require 'RedCloth'
 require 'pandoc-ruby'
+require 'iconv'
 
 class StaticPage
   attr_accessor :path, :children, :name, :file_path, :props, :parent, :mount_point, :locales
@@ -349,6 +350,7 @@ class StaticPage
   }
 
   def render_pandoc(string, suffix, locale)
+    string = Iconv.conv("UTF-8//IGNORE", "UTF-8", string)  # remove illegal utf-8
     args = [string, {:from => PANDOC_FORMATS[suffix], :to => :html}, "smart"]
     if props.locale(locale).toc != false
       args << "table_of_contents"