Package: perl Version: 5.8.4-6 Followup-For: Bug #250877 Hi, just stumbled over this bug too. I don't know nroff but I tried to apply to Pod::Man the suggestion given in groff-base README.Debian file (cc Colin Watson) in the hope that VB scopes the char directive. Visual inspection of manpages created with the patch confirm my hope. Minus in verbatim are now minus and when a word is broken to next line a hyphen is used.
Hope this patch is good enough, Achim $ diff -u /usr/share/perl/5.8.4/Pod/Man.pm Pod/Man.pm --- /usr/share/perl/5.8.4/Pod/Man.pm 2005-02-02 15:31:49.000000000 +0100 +++ Pod/Man.pm 2005-02-25 10:46:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text +. if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ +. char - \N'45' .ft @CFONT@ .nf .ne \\$1 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages perl depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii perl-base 5.8.4-6 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis ii perl-modules 5.8.4-6 Core Perl modules -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
