[perl #22076] Unrecognized character \xE2

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This is a bug report for perl from asanto1@gl.umbc.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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Running on RH8 fully patched with latest versions of both perl and lwp.  This
bug has also been seen in the following location which implies that it might be
a core perl bug as opposed to interaction between lwp and perl:

http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Perl_support_problems.html

During any attempt to use the LWP api ( even with simple code like the following
 ):

         use LWP::UserAgent;
         $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
         $ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");


Will cause this error:

Unrecognized character \xE2 at start.pl line 3.


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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=high
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by root at Tue Apr 29 18:40:31 EDT 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.18-27.8.0, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.18-27.8.0 #1 fri mar 14 07:36:43 est
2003 i686 athlon i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-de'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=unde
f
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_B
ITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O3',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)', gccosandv
ers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize
=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:


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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/root
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6
/bin:/root/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [perl #22076] Unrecognized character \xE2 by Anthony
• Re: [perl #22076] Unrecognized character \xE2 by Slaven Rezic