Russ,
Here is a patch to Pod::Text (from perl v5.5.670) that adds the missing
HTML escapes that can be displayed on an xterm. This includes
support for E<copy> and E<plusmn> that I tend to miss a lot. Not sure how
to supply the equivalent for Pod::Man.
Hope I have the patch the correct way round (first patch on p5p) and that
it can squeeze into the final 5.6 release [a very simple patch]:
--
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
*** lib/Pod/Text.pm.old Mon Mar 6 21:57:38 2000
--- lib/Pod/Text.pm Mon Mar 6 21:58:08 2000
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*** 43,48 ****
--- 43,49 ----
# This table is taken near verbatim from Pod::PlainText in Pod::Parser,
# which got it near verbatim from the original Pod::Text. It is therefore
# credited to Tom Christiansen, and I'm glad I didn't have to write it. :)
+ # "iexcl" to "divide" added by Tim Jenness
%ESCAPES = (
'amp' => '&', # ampersand
'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
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*** 112,119 ****
"yacute" => "\xFD", # small y, acute accent
"yuml" => "\xFF", # small y, dieresis or umlaut mark
! "lchevron" => "\xAB", # left chevron (double less than)
! "rchevron" => "\xBB", # right chevron (double greater than)
);
--- 113,154 ----
"yacute" => "\xFD", # small y, acute accent
"yuml" => "\xFF", # small y, dieresis or umlaut mark
! "lchevron" => "\xAB", # left chevron (double less than) laquo
! "rchevron" => "\xBB", # right chevron (double greater than) raquo
!
! "iexcl" => "\xA1", # inverted exclamation mark
! "cent" => "\xA2", # cent sign
! "pound" => "\xA3", # (UK) pound sign
! "curren" => "\xA4", # currency sign
! "yen" => "\xA5", # yen sign
! "brvbar" => "\xA6", # broken vertical bar
! "sect" => "\xA7", # section sign
! "uml" => "\xA8", # diaresis
! "copy" => "\xA9", # Copyright symbol
! "ordf" => "\xAA", # feminine ordinal indicator
! "laquo" => "\xAB", # left pointing double angle quotation mark
! "not" => "\xAC", # not sign
! "shy" => "\xAD", # soft hyphen
! "reg" => "\xAE", # registered trademark
! "macr" => "\xAF", # macron, overline
! "deg" => "\xB0", # degree sign
! "plusmn" => "\xB1", # plus-minus sign
! "sup2" => "\xB2", # superscript 2
! "sup3" => "\xB3", # superscript 3
! "acute" => "\xB4", # acute accent
! "micro" => "\xB5", # micro sign
! "para" => "\xB6", # pilcrow sign = paragraph sign
! "middot" => "\xB7", # middle dot = Georgian comma
! "cedil" => "\xB8", # cedilla
! "sup1" => "\xB9", # superscript 1
! "ordm" => "\xBA", # masculine ordinal indicator
! "raquo" => "\xBB", # right pointing double angle quotation mark
! "frac14" => "\xBC", # vulgar fraction one quarter
! "frac12" => "\xBD", # vulgar fraction one half
! "frac34" => "\xBE", # vulgar fraction three quarters
! "iquest" => "\xBF", # inverted question mark
! "times" => "\xD7", # multiplication sign
! "divide" => "\xF7", # division sign
);
