Index: trunk/core/kernel/parser/template.php
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diff -u -N -r8922 -r8925
--- trunk/core/kernel/parser/template.php	(.../template.php)	(revision 8922)
+++ trunk/core/kernel/parser/template.php	(.../template.php)	(revision 8925)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 			}
 
 			// stripping out special comments
-			$this->SetBody(preg_replace('/<!--##.*##-->/s', '', file_get_contents($filename)));
+			$this->SetBody(preg_replace('/<!--##.*##-->/sU', '', file_get_contents($filename)));
 			/*$handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
 			$contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
 			$this->SetBody($contents);