link-checker commit: Document why utf8_mode is in an eval block.

changeset:   338:c1625efe1592
user:        ville
date:        Wed Dec 16 19:10:50 2009 +0000
files:       bin/checklink
description:
Document why utf8_mode is in an eval block.


diff -r b58482b29d42 -r c1625efe1592 bin/checklink
--- a/bin/checklink	Wed Dec 16 19:04:57 2009 +0000
+++ b/bin/checklink	Wed Dec 16 19:10:50 2009 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # (c) 1999-2009 World Wide Web Consortium
 # based on Renaud Bruyeron's checklink.pl
 #
-# $Id: checklink,v 4.175 2009-12-16 19:04:57 ville Exp $
+# $Id: checklink,v 4.176 2009-12-16 19:10:50 ville Exp $
 #
 # This program is licensed under the W3C(r) Software License:
 #       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
   $PROGRAM     = 'W3C-checklink';
   $VERSION     = '4.5';
   $REVISION    = sprintf('version %s (c) 1999-2009 W3C', $VERSION);
-  my ($cvsver) = q$Revision: 4.175 $ =~ /(\d+[\d\.]*\.\d+)/;
+  my ($cvsver) = q$Revision: 4.176 $ =~ /(\d+[\d\.]*\.\d+)/;
   $AGENT       = sprintf('%s/%s [%s] %s',
                          $PROGRAM, $VERSION, $cvsver,
                          (W3C::UserAgent::USE_ROBOT_UA
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@
 sub new
 {
   my $p = HTML::Parser::new(@_, api_version => 3);
-  eval {
+  eval { # ...because utf8_mode is only available with Perl >= 5.8.
     local $SIG{__DIE__} = undef;
     $p->utf8_mode(1);
   };

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