As part of the shift to working with a plain text editor I would like to employ the 'perltidy' batch file and script to ensure my code is readable and consistent in presentation. However I have encountered a problem in doing so.

I use UTF-8 encoding with a matching BOM for all my Perl sources. Unfortunately when I run 'perltidy' on a file with this layout I recieve the following error:

Perltidy version is 20180220
1:    unexpected character decimal 239 (ï) in script
1:    unexpected character decimal 187 (») in script
1:    unexpected character decimal 191 (¿) in script
1:    Giving up after error

[download]

If I remove the BOM, but otherwise keep the UTF-8 encoding then 'perltidy' works as expected. Alternately if I set the -UTF8 switch then I get both the error message and the entire source file becomes double-spaced on new lines. Is there any way around this problem?

"Aure Entuluva!" - Hurin Thalion at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

In reply to perltidy and UTF-8 BOM by morelenmir

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.