Package: perl
Version: 5.8.8-6.1
Severity: minor
Very minor problem with examples with quotes in the manpage:
To translate uppercase names to lower, you’d use
rename ’y/A-Z/a-z/’ *
This cannot be copied directly into a terminal, because man (or nroff
or whatever) has inserted some special type of quote that isn't
recognised by my shell:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rename ’y/A-Z/a-z/’ *
Unrecognized character \xE2 at (eval 1) line 1.
It took me a little while to realise what it was going on about there.
I'm not sure if it's even possible, but if so, it would be nice if the
manpage could specify "please do not replace these chars with anything
else" for the quotes in this case (and I'm sure there must be many other
examples of this happening in other packages).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii perl-base 5.8.8-6.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-6.1 Core Perl modules
Versions of packages perl recommends:
pn perl-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Jon Dowland
http://alcopop.org/
