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2009/10/2 karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>: > FFFE is a 'noncharacter'. It isn't an 'illegal character'. It is perfectly > legal in Unicode to use this code point. It is, however, illegal to use it > in "interchange", and hence would never be confused with a BOM from an input > stream. I believe the message should be changed to be something more like > Unicode noncharacter 0xfffe is illegal for interchange > > with a fuller explanation in perldiag.pod, and the ability to turn off just > this warning. Like this ? =item Unicode non-character %s is illegal for interchange (W utf8) Certain codepoints, such as U+FFFE and U+FFFF, are defined by the Unicode standard to be non-characters. Those are legal codepoints, but are reserved for internal use; so, applications shouldn't attempt to exchange them. If you know what you are doing you can turn off this warning by C<no warnings 'utf8';>.Thread Previous | Thread Next