On Friday, 18 November 2016 10:54:36 CET Russ Allbery wrote: >> Considering [1], we may want to patch Debian's perl to produce utf8 man > > pages even if upstream cannot, due to portability constraints. > > That's not strictly true, which is the reason why I haven't already > switched Linux systems over to generating UTF-8 by default. This means > that you cannot create man pages with pod2man on a Linux system and have > them work on any other system, something that pod2man has, up until this > point, always guaranteed.
Looks like I was not clear. I was thinking of patching perl build system to generate perl* man page (perlrun perlunicook...) as utf8 man page. That should not impact the generation of other man pages (i.e. not in Debian perl package) using pod2man. HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org