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

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Markus Wichitill wrote:
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>> But first I would like to know why the script doesn't fail when run 
>> outside mod_perl. We do nothing special here, other than read+eval, 
>> compared to require. So it looks like a bug in perl. 
> 
> 
> 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?

I suppose mp1's registry suffers from the same issue.

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