Bug#492037: Bug#500210: perldoc perlrun spits out junk in synopsis

2013-06-06 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Tags: -1 - patch On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 04:05:11PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niko Tyni writes: > > > It's clearly still true, and I can't see any fix for it other than > > adding =encoding utf8 lines in the POD files where necessary. > > > However, I think all the documents that are rendere

Bug#492037: Bug#500210: perldoc perlrun spits out junk in synopsis

2011-05-27 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
forwarded 492037 http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78332 thanks On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 09:01:23AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 03:56:16PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > As far as I can see, pod2man --utf8 now exists, but will not render > > all docume

Bug#492037: Bug#500210: perldoc perlrun spits out junk in synopsis

2011-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni writes: > It's clearly still true, and I can't see any fix for it other than > adding =encoding utf8 lines in the POD files where necessary. > However, I think all the documents that are rendered incorrectly with > --utf8 are already rendered incorrectly now, albeit in a different > wa

Bug#492037: Bug#500210: perldoc perlrun spits out junk in synopsis

2011-05-21 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 03:56:16PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > As far as I can see, pod2man --utf8 now exists, but will not render > all documents correctly - possibly =encoding UTF8 is needed for this > to work. > > Is this statement still true, or has any progress happened since the > la

Bug#492037: Bug#500210: perldoc perlrun spits out junk in synopsis

2011-05-21 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:10:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niko Tyni writes: > > > Any estimate on how widespread this POD problem is? Is the hardcoded > > 'pod2man --utf8' in the Lenny perldoc going to cause more grief than > > it's worth? > > > > I'm leaning on reverting that and reopening

Bug#492037: Bug#500210: perldoc perlrun spits out junk in synopsis

2008-10-01 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:10:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Any estimate on how widespread this POD problem is? Is the hardcoded > > 'pod2man --utf8' in the Lenny perldoc going to cause more grief than > > it's worth? > I looked at this some more, a

Bug#492037: Bug#500210: perldoc perlrun spits out junk in synopsis

2008-09-30 Thread Niko Tyni
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:22:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > You got it exactly right. Basically, podlators has been papering over > this bug incorrectly, but in a way that happens to do the right thing with > a common POD problem. > So if you're using UTF-8, starting the POD with: > > =