Re[2]: [mp2] =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Unrecognized character=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?=error when running scripts inutf-8

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Hi everybody,

I hope this message will find its way to the thread I started on the list.

Thanks a lot to all the participants of the discussion, the problem was indeed in this BOM part of the scripts. Markus Wichitill <mawic@xxx.xx> has recommended to use popular shareware editor UltraEdit, which has two .ini options that prevent the adding of UTF-8 BOMs.

To those interested I put a more detailed error report which appeared in the log after I added 

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

to my startup.pl file, as had been recommended by Stas Bekman <stas@xxxxxx.xxx>

[error] 2092: ModPerl::PerlRun: Unrecognized character \xEF at C:/shttps/CGI-FRLS/METSA/GET_LIST.PL line 1.
	eval 'package ModPerl::ROOT::ModPerl::PerlRun::C_3a_shttps_CGI_2dFRLS_METSA_GET_LIST_2ePL;sub handler {local $0 = \'C:/shttps/CGI-FRLS/METSA/GET_LIST.PL\';
#line 1 C:/shttps/CGI-FRLS/METSA/GET_LIST.PL
&#65279;use utf8;
binmode(STDOUT, ":raw:utf8");
print "Content-Type: text/html\\n\\n";
print "hello";
}
;' called at C:/Perl/site/lib/Apache2/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 665
	ModPerl::RegistryCooker::compile('ModPerl::PerlRun=HASH(0x6c3384)', 'SCALAR(0x7c8388)') called at C:/Perl/site/lib/Apache2/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 374
	ModPerl::RegistryCooker::convert_script_to_compiled_handler('ModPerl::PerlRun=HASH(0x6c3384)') called at C:/Perl/site/lib/Apache2/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 145
	ModPerl::RegistryCooker::default_handler('ModPerl::PerlRun=HASH(0x6c3384)') called at C:/Perl/site/lib/Apache2/ModPerl/PerlRun.pm line 16
	ModPerl::PerlRun::handler('ModPerl::PerlRun', 'Apache::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x6c32b8)') called at C:/shttps/CGI-FRLS/METSA/GET_LIST.PL line 1
	eval {...} called at C:/shttps/CGI-FRLS/METSA/GET_LIST.PL line 1

Terminating on signal SIGTERM(15)

Attached please find a sample of a BOMed script.

Please feel free to report the error/fix suggestion to the developers of the corresponding modules. I believe you will be able to do it much more professionally than me ;-)

Thanks again for your help!

Igor K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Wichitill <mawic@xxx.xx>
To: Igor Kudashev<igor_kudashev@xxxx.xx>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:37:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [mp2] "Unrecognized character" error when running scripts inutf-8

> 
> Igor Kudashev wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Looks like the various ModPerl::RegistryCooker-based modules don't like a 
> UTF-8 Byte Order Marker (BOM, "EF BB BF") at the start of the script 
> (verified with 1.99_17). So until that can be fixed in a future version, 
> you'll have to use an editor that can save files without a BOM, or remove 
> those three bytes manually.
> 

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