On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:02:38PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.8.7-10 > Severity: wishlist > > When a man page generated by pod2man which includes umlauts is viewed > with man in an xterm, the umlaut is not shown but 'Xe' is displayed > instead. According to Colin Watson, pod2man has some *roff code that > tries to manually place the umlaut. It would be nice if pod2man would > support the predefined :u input character.
I believe Russ (as the pod2man upstream maintainer) is not willing to make it output groff specific sequences by default for portability reasons. Even doing this as a Debian-specific change would mean that other systems could not read the Debian manpages. Invoking pod2man with the --utf8 option (present since Lenny) makes it generate raw utf8, which should work fine on Debian (modulo POD documents with a wrong or missing =encoding.) See also http://bugs.debian.org/492037 http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2008-06/002.html . I think Russ is getting this too so I'm sure he'll speak up if he's got something to add :) -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
