[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Package: perl-doc > Version: 5.10.0-10 > > UTF8 gets turned into "X" by pod2man, besides other disturbing issues:
pod2man doesn't support non-ISO characters because doing so completely breaks (and by breaks, I mean up to and including segfaults) nroff on some platforms and the intention is that pod2man output be portable nroff. Someone needs to write the code to generate different types of output depending on the intended destination platform and figure out how to plug that into all sorts of things, including the Perl build system, and when to turn it on. I personally don't have the time to do the work (and haven't for years despite wanting to, so it's unlikely I'm going to magically find the time). On modern Linux systems, it's probably okay to just output UTF-8 verbatim and let man deal with it (although that's only true of Debian recently, as in post-etch). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
