mojombo/jekyll — Issue #503: Empty _site generated when using utf-8 characters
Author: mmozuras
Created: 2012-02-05 20:19:15+00:00
State: open

Steps to reproduce:

1 Step one:

```
mkdir jekyll
cd jekyll
mkdir _layouts
```

2 Create index.html with this content:

```
---
layout: default
title: Test
---

```

3 Create _config.yml with this content:

```
markdown: rdiscount
auto: true
permalink: pretty
```

4 Create default.html in _layouts with this content:

```

{{ page.title }}

Mindaugas Mozūras

```

5 Run:

```
jekyll --server
```

6 Observe that _site is completely empty.
7 Delete 'Mozūras' from default layout. Repeat step 5 and find that this time _site is not empty.

I'm using:
* MacVim/vim. Made sure it doesn't add any BOM characters.
* Ruby 1.9.2p290
* Jekyll 0.11.2
* RDiscount 1.6.8

I also added this to my ~/.profile:

```
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
```

GitHub Pages also failed to generate new version of my site when I added an utf-8 character.

What am I missing?
Thanks in advance for your help.