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

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Игорь Кудашев wrote:
> Hi everybody. I ran into a problem with Perl scripts stored in utf-8
> and I couldn't find the answer to it on the Internet or mailing lists.
> Please tell me what I'm missing.
> 
> SYSTEM: Windows XP SP2, Active Perl 5.8.4.810, Apache 2.048, mod_perl
> 1.9912.
> 
> I need to run scripts stored in utf-8. Here is the code of a test
> SCRIPT:
> 
> use utf8; 
 > binmode(STDOUT, ":raw:utf8");
> print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
 > print "hello";

[...]

> I use the Windows' Notepad and save the file as utf-8. Everything works
> fine while I run the script from the command line or through CGI
> without mod_perl. PROBLEM: When I try to run the script using mod_perl,
> I get the following ERROR:
> 
> [error] 3320: ModPerl::PerlRun: Unrecognized character \xEF at
> .../CGI-FOO/TEST.PL line 1.
[...]
> It seems as if mod_perl doesn't recognize the format of the script file
> correctly. Any tips why this may occur? Thanks a bundle in advance!

Wow! That's interesting.

Please take a look at the code in function 
convert_script_to_compiled_handler at 
ModPerl-Registry/lib/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm, and suggest a fix. You 
probably want to add:

use Carp;
$SIG{__DIE__} = \&Carp::confess;

somewhere at the startup to see where exactly it fails.

Also I'd appreciate if you could send this script with BOM as an 
attachment so that we can test it. Not sure if it'll be reproducable on linux.


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