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
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