Emojis in config files seem to cause problems

[krisavi]

If emoji in config file, then getting error like:
Cannot get sections from config file 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 3757: ordinal not in range(128)

It seems haproxy handles emojis just fine, but roxy-wi is not able to parse emojis in acl
In haproxy config I have lines like...
acl snakey hdr(host) -i 🐍.my.tld

[Aidaho12]

Does it looks like:

frontend test
    mode http
    maxconn 2000
    acl snakey hdr(host) -i :snake:.my.tld

in your config? I cannot reproduce it

[krisavi]

In the config even if I open with vim it shows as snake emoji 🐍, not :snake:

Removing those lines, even if commented resolved the issue, but of course made it not to detect those edge case subdomain redirections.

[Aidaho12]

Could you send it in ASCI mode?

[krisavi]

cat -A shows it like that:
acl snakey hdr(host) -i M-pM-^_M-^PM-^M.my.tld$

[Aidaho12]

Well, it works