severity 401089 normal reassign 840211 perl-doc 5.24.1~rc3-3 forcemerge 840211 401089 forwarded 401089 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68741 thanks
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 05:30:23PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.24.1~rc3-3 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > In perlunicook man page, non-ASCII utf-8 char are replaced by 'X' > (which is a shame on a man page dealing with unicode and utf8 issue): Indeed. This is also #401089, merging. A workaround is using 'perldoc' instead of the man pages. > I guess that this file was generated by pod2man without --utf8 option. Yes. > Could you please fix the generation of these man pages ? I think upstream (Russ and iirc others on p5p too) have been stepping very carefully here due to compatibility issues with older nroff implementations and the like. There's [rt.cpan.org #68741] upstream, quoting Russ in 2011: "I'm currently leaning towards outputing UTF-8 by default, but I'm kicking around the idea of trying to use the user's locale." Russ, any thoughts about the current status? -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
