I type chinese characters into the fields. After press "save setup" button the characters turn into gibberish.

I submit a patch that solve the problem for me. --Lingo

Fully fixing it is slightly more complex, but now done --Joey


--- websetup.pm 2009-12-02 05:07:46.000000000 +0800
+++ /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/websetup.pm 2010-01-08 22:05:16.000000000 +0800
@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@
            $fields{$_}=$shown{$_} foreach keys %shown;
        }
    }
-   
+
+   IkiWiki::decode_form_utf8($form);   
    if ($form->submitted eq "Cancel") {
        IkiWiki::redirect($cgi, $config{url});
        return;