Bug#346095: pod2man: please support groff's umlaut mechanism, e.g \(:u)

2010-02-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [2010-02-01 13:13]: That's a good summary. Since groff can now handle Unicode input directly, the groff-specific escapes are probably not more portable than just using Unicode output. Ok, sounds good to me. Feel free to close this bug report. -- Martin

Bug#346095: pod2man: please support groff's umlaut mechanism, e.g \(:u)

2010-02-01 Thread Niko Tyni
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

Bug#346095: pod2man: please support groff's umlaut mechanism, e.g \(:u)

2010-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:02:38PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 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

Bug#346095: pod2man: please support groff's umlaut mechanism, e.g \(:u)

2006-01-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
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.