Segmentation Fault with Markdown

[Stefan Tilkov]

John Gruber wrote on 22.05.2004 23:43:02:

> Jonathan Ploudre <jploudre at fastmail.fm> wrote on 05/22/04 at 2:20pm:
> 
> > I actually was getting segmentation faults which is what led me to 
> > discover the perl -w command. My university is running an old version 
> > of perl (5.6.0) but that's out of my realm to change.
> 
> I've received other reports of this, all of them from people running
> Markdown with Perl 5.6.0. I am certain that it is a bug in that
> specific version of Perl.
> 

It *must* be a bug in Perl 5.6.0 - 

> 
> > I noticed that the errors on Markdown 1.0b5 only happens on certain 
> > pages on my blosxom site but haven't figured out what text creates the 

> > Malformed UTF-8 error.
> 
> I think I've worked around the 5.6.0 crashing bug starting with
> 1.0b5, but I have no idea what could be causing the "malformed
> UTF-8" warning you're seeing. I'm pretty sure that Markdown.pl
> contains no non-ASCII characters.
> 
> If you can reduce this to specific reproducible steps, it'd be a
> help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -J.G.
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