On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 12:14 +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:27:57PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >pod2man inserts a block of groffese to turn the ordinary, every day '|' > >character (U+007C VERTICAL LINE = VERTICAL BAR) into the extra-ordinary > >'???' character (U+2502 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL). > > > >This means, for instance, that '$|' gets turned into '$???', '||' into > >'??????', and so on. > pod2man doesn't appear to be doing anything special with vertical bars, > Pod::Man.pm lines 75-81:
.\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will .\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left .\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. | will give a .\" real vertical bar. \*(C+ will give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to .\" do unbreakable dashes and therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' .\" expand to `' in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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