http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457839
which recommends using "\(aq" as you mentioned. If this really is the
solution, then it appears to be a pod2man problem because I can't find
anything I can do to improve the situation.
I should have read the complete bug report. Appare
Thanks for looking into this Christian. I suspected this may be
locale-dependent because when I look at the manpage source file the
quoting looks different for different languages. I tried various tests
looking at just the output of "perldoc exiftool", and can't find a way
to keep the quotes
Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:28:54AM +0200, Christian Garbs wrote:
> There needs to be a distinction between the typographical apostrophe
> and the ASCII apostrophe.
>
> I don't know if this can be distinguished in POD at all (then propably
> lots of Perl packages would need to be fixed), if the pod2
I'm going to need some help with this one. The quotes are correct in
the POD documentation, but are apparently being translated somewhere
along the line for Christian.
I don't have this problem on my system (Free BSD using csh).
- Phil
On Jul 26, 2008, at 5:08 AM, Christian Garbs
Package: libimage-exiftool-perl
Version: 7.30-1
Severity: normal
The manpage exiftool.1p.gz contains (especially in the EXAMPLES
sections) lots of ’ that should be ' instead.
If you copy a line like
exiftool ’-DateTimeOriginal>FileModifyDate’ dir
to your shell you will get an error message:
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