Re: [perl #75680] Certain regex patterns cause fatal errors with valid UTF-8

[email protected] ("Dr.Ruud")
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
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Doug Cook wrote:

> My program worked fine under previous versions of Perl on MacOS (prior to Snow Leopard).
> 
> Now it dies under 5.8.9, 5.10.0 and 5.12.1, with "Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal)" - but the input data is the same, and is, as far as I can tell, perfectly valid UTF-8.

It could well be that your editor saves the source as either UTF-8 or 
ISO-8859-1. Did you check the input data at the byte level?

-- 
Ruud
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