diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -434,22 +434,6 @@
 you can include a section in `<div>` tags, or use raw `<ul>` and `<li>`
 tags instead of markdown formatting.
 
-### Stringtemplate gotchas
-
-Sometimes you want to create a span-level template---something like
-`date.st`, which just formats a date:
-
-    $it; format="%B %d, %Y"$
-
-If you create a file containing this line with a regular text editor,
-the file will end with a newline character.  This will be treated
-as a newline in the template, so you'll get a new line after every
-date in a list of dates: not what you want.
-
-The solution is to set up your text editor so that it doesn't
-add the newline at the end of the file.  Using [vim][], you can do this
-with the commands `set binary` and `set noeol`.
-
 ### Layout templates
 
 Layout files are also string templates, but they are not treated as
@@ -506,6 +490,27 @@
 at another port, just pass the port number as an argument to `maid`:
 
     maid 5999
+
+## Development
+
+### Source code
+
+yst's source code lives on github at <http://github.com/jgm/yst/tree/master>.
+You can clone the repository with
+
+   git://github.com/jgm/yst.git
+
+To install the development code once you've checked it out, just do
+
+    cabal install
+
+(But please stick to the released version if you don't like things to break
+unexpectedly!)
+
+### Reporting bugs
+
+If you find a bug, please report it using
+[the issue tracker on yst's github page](http://github.com/jgm/yst/issues).
 
 
 [string template]: http://www.stringtemplate.org/
diff --git a/Yst/Build.hs b/Yst/Build.hs
--- a/Yst/Build.hs
+++ b/Yst/Build.hs
@@ -28,9 +28,15 @@
 import System.Directory
 import System.Exit
 import System.Time (ClockTime(..))
+-- Note: ghc >= 6.12 (base >=4.2) supports unicode through iconv
+-- So we use System.IO.UTF8 only if we have an earlier version
+#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,2,0)
+import System.IO (hPutStrLn)
+#else
+import Prelude hiding (readFile, putStrLn, print, writeFile)
 import System.IO.UTF8
+#endif
 import System.IO (stderr)
-import Prelude hiding (readFile, putStrLn, print, writeFile)
 import Control.Monad
 
 dependencies :: Site -> String -> [FilePath]
diff --git a/Yst/CSV.hs b/Yst/CSV.hs
--- a/Yst/CSV.hs
+++ b/Yst/CSV.hs
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@
 import Yst.Types
 import Yst.Util
 import Text.CSV
+-- Note: ghc >= 6.12 (base >=4.2) supports unicode through iconv
+-- So we use System.IO.UTF8 only if we have an earlier version
+#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,2,0)
+#else
 import Prelude hiding (readFile)
 import System.IO.UTF8
+#endif
 
 readCSVFile :: FilePath -> IO Node
 readCSVFile f = catch (readFile f >>= return . csvToNode . parseCSV' f . stripBlanks)
diff --git a/Yst/Data.hs b/Yst/Data.hs
--- a/Yst/Data.hs
+++ b/Yst/Data.hs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-unused-do-bind #-}
 {-
 Copyright (C) 2009 John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
 
diff --git a/Yst/Render.hs b/Yst/Render.hs
--- a/Yst/Render.hs
+++ b/Yst/Render.hs
@@ -30,8 +30,13 @@
 import Text.StringTemplate
 import Data.Maybe (fromMaybe)
 import System.FilePath
-import System.IO.UTF8
+-- Note: ghc >= 6.12 (base >=4.2) supports unicode through iconv
+-- So we use System.IO.UTF8 only if we have an earlier version
+#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,2,0)
+#else
 import Prelude hiding (readFile, putStrLn, print, writeFile)
+import System.IO.UTF8
+#endif
 import Data.Time
 import Control.Monad
 
diff --git a/Yst/Types.hs b/Yst/Types.hs
--- a/Yst/Types.hs
+++ b/Yst/Types.hs
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 
 module Yst.Types
 where
-import System.FilePath
 import Data.Char
 import Data.Time
 import Text.StringTemplate
diff --git a/Yst/Util.hs b/Yst/Util.hs
--- a/Yst/Util.hs
+++ b/Yst/Util.hs
@@ -22,7 +22,13 @@
 import System.Exit
 import System.FilePath
 import System.IO (stderr)
+-- Note: ghc >= 6.12 (base >=4.2) supports unicode through iconv
+-- So we use System.IO.UTF8 only if we have an earlier version
+#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,2,0)
+import System.IO (hPutStrLn)
+#else
 import System.IO.UTF8 (hPutStrLn)
+#endif
 import System.Directory
 import Control.Monad
 import Data.Time
diff --git a/demo/date.st b/demo/date.st
--- a/demo/date.st
+++ b/demo/date.st
diff --git a/demo/eventgroup.st b/demo/eventgroup.st
--- a/demo/eventgroup.st
+++ b/demo/eventgroup.st
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 **$first(it).date:date(); separator=" - "$**
 
+
 $it:event()$
+
diff --git a/demo/events.yaml b/demo/events.yaml
--- a/demo/events.yaml
+++ b/demo/events.yaml
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@
 
 - date: 2009-04-15
   speaker: Jim Jones
-  title:  XSS attacks for dummies
+  title:  ὕαλον ϕαγεῖν δύναμαι
 
diff --git a/demo/index.st b/demo/index.st
--- a/demo/index.st
+++ b/demo/index.st
@@ -7,3 +7,10 @@
 $recentevents:event()$
 
 For a complete list of events, see the [events](events.html) page.
+
+yst supports unicode:
+
+- ὕαλον ϕαγεῖν δύναμαι· τοῦτο οὔ με βλάπτει.
+- أنا قادر على أكل الزجاج و هذا لا يؤلمني.
+- 我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体。
+
diff --git a/yst.cabal b/yst.cabal
--- a/yst.cabal
+++ b/yst.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name:                yst
-version:             0.2.2
+version:             0.2.2.1
+Tested-With:         GHC == 6.10.4, GHC == 6.12.1
 Cabal-version:       >= 1.2
 build-type:          Simple
 synopsis:            Builds a static website from templates and data in YAML or
@@ -50,5 +51,6 @@
                      filepath, containers, directory, utf8-string, time,
                      old-locale, old-time, parsec, xhtml, pandoc, bytestring,
                      split
+  extensions:        CPP
   ghc-options:       -Wall -threaded -fno-warn-orphans
   ghc-prof-options:  -auto-all -caf-all
diff --git a/yst.hs b/yst.hs
--- a/yst.hs
+++ b/yst.hs
@@ -26,9 +26,15 @@
 import System.Environment
 import System.Directory
 import System.Exit
+-- Note: ghc >= 6.12 (base >=4.2) supports unicode through iconv
+-- So we use System.IO.UTF8 only if we have an earlier version
+#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,2,0)
+import System.IO (hPutStrLn)
+#else
+import Prelude hiding (readFile, putStrLn, print, writeFile)
 import System.IO.UTF8
+#endif
 import System.IO (stderr)
-import Prelude hiding (readFile, putStrLn, print, writeFile)
 import Control.Monad
 
 createSite :: FilePath -> IO ()