Question

I wrote little wrapper subroutine to produce HTML-tables with HTML::Table, same time i use utf8::all and together they produce a weird warning:

utf8 "\xE4" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Table.pm line 756.

Line 756 is deeply middle of POD, so i can’t figure out, what may be wrong there.

Example script to reproduce the problem:

use 5.012;
use utf8::all;
use HTML::Table;

my @head = qw(col1 col2 col3);
my @table = (
        [ qw( yks kaks kolm) ],
        [ qw( neli viis kuus) ],
    );

say table_draw( table => \@table, header => \@head );

sub table_draw {
    my (%args) = @_;

    $args{border} ||= 0;
    $args{padding} ||= 1;
    $args{width} ||= '95%';

    my $table = new HTML::Table(
                -head=> $args{header},
                -data=> $args{table},
                -width=> $args{width},
                -border=> $args{border},
                -padding=> $args{padding},
            );

    return $table;
}

EDIT: changed min Perl version, because under 5.10 i did not get warning either,

Answer 1

The line number’s not quite right, but the error seems to be with the following gentleman/lady’s name in the POD:

Ville Skyttä, [e-mail]

Not actually utf8, I suspect. Presumably a small bug-report is in order.