imathis/octopress — pull request #551 by haplesshero13 (2012-05-04 14:10:53+00:00)
Title: Force UTF-8 Support 

In response to my Issue, #550, where Backtick Code Block dies on UTF-8.

In my fix, I force the input to Backtick Code Block to be UTF-8. This prevents inconsistencies in encoding, which are fatal to the site generation process, and really undesirable. This may not be the perfect fix at all, but it fixes a major headache.