Pod::Simple and perl 5.6 consternation

[Sean M. Burke]

Jarkko helped me get Pod::Simple working under 5.6.  I was going batty 
because it I had taken out all the "use utf8" lines, but was still getting 
a few "Malformed UTF-8 character" warnings under 5.6!

But I forgot Sherlock Holmes' dictum: "When you have eliminated all which 
is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

For you see, there was STILL a "use utf8" left in there, causing all the 
trouble.
Once I took that one out (really for sure this time), everything worked, 
well, not perfectly, but then I patched it a bit more, and hacked some of 
the t/corpustest.t things to skip running under 5.6, and now everything 
works under 5.8, 5.6, and even 5.005.
Under perls before 5.8, =encode foo is emulated by something that only 
supports ASCII and Latin-1, and characters over 255 all get you a ? character.

So, crisis (well, hassle) averted.

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Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/