in reply to Re^7: Rogue character(s) at start of JSON file (BOM; dumping references)
in thread Rogue character(s) at start of JSON file

> If you want perl to continue to read the file as a series of bytes (not using the UTF-8 encoding)

I'd expect JSON libraries to fail processing octects of undecoded UTF-8, so I'd say this approach is not optimal ...

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