Re: [mp2] "Unrecognized character" error when running scripts in utf-8

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Markus Wichitill wrote:
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>> Markus Wichitill wrote:
>>
>>> No, Perl can deal with a BOM at the start of a file. But 
>>> convert_script_to_compiled_handler() puts the BOM in the middle of 
>>> the string that is eval'ed. A bunch of raw bytes has no place in the 
>>> middle of a script.
>>
>>
>> Aha! Now it's clear. Thanks Markus.
>>
>> Do we know that it's always coming in the first few chars of the script?
> 
> 
> Yes, it's always the first 2-4 bytes.
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM

Thanks for the link, Markus.

I suppose we could add your s/// wrapper to RegistryCooker as a function, 
so to save time to those who want to write a subclass to handle that.


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