Dear Shlomi, As you might have discovered already, I just filed a bug report on the Config-IniFiles RT queue. It was assigned the [rt.cpan.org #59152] ID.
Peter Gordon was kind enough to direct you to an excellent UTF-8 (and Unicode in general) introductory text. I might add another good starting point: "Joel on Software, The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" by Joel Spolsky http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html. Don't be scared by the lengthy title... :-). Regards, Meir -----Original Message----- From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:shlo...@iglu.org.il] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 12:33 PM To: Meir Guttman Cc: perl@perl.org.il Subject: Re: A Config::IniFiles problem Hi Meir, On Monday 05 Jul 2010 18:55:16 Meir Guttman wrote: > Dear Shlomi, > > > > I am using your Config-IniFiles-2.58 module for quite some time now, but so > far in a very rudimentary way, just for scalars, just for reading, etc. OK. > > Yesterday I discovered a shortcoming of the package: It cannot read a UTF-8 > file with a BOM marker. It aborts and dies. I had to resave it without a > BOM for it to work. IMHO, this should be corrected. Please file this as a bug on the Config-IniFiles RT queue: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Config-IniFiles Please give a testcase where it fails. (And naturally, a patch including tests would be ideal). BTW, I didn't realise UTF-8 needed a BOM. Can you elaborate on it? I'll try to wikipedia it. > > (As a sideline, when all else failed and $! Messages were puzzling, I did > RTFM. There of course I found the @Config::IniFiles::errors. But this is > another story!) OK. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
