On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:21:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niko Tyni writes:
>
> > No, I don't think we've ever done that. I think it *should* be as simple
> > as patching ./installman to pass utf8 => 1 to Pod::Man (the Perl build
> > system doesn't use pod2man itself).
Niko Tyni writes:
> No, I don't think we've ever done that. I think it *should* be as simple
> as patching ./installman to pass utf8 => 1 to Pod::Man (the Perl build
> system doesn't use pod2man itself). There might be some issues with
> cross-building but that's not really
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:16:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dominique Dumont writes:
>
> > Looks like I was not clear. I was thinking of patching perl build system
> > to generate perl* man page (perlrun perlunicook...) as utf8 man page.
>
> > That should not impact the
Dominique Dumont writes:
> Looks like I was not clear. I was thinking of patching perl build system
> to generate perl* man page (perlrun perlunicook...) as utf8 man page.
> That should not impact the generation of other man pages (i.e. not in
> Debian perl package) using
On Friday, 18 November 2016 10:54:36 CET Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Considering [1], we may want to patch Debian's perl to produce utf8 man
> > pages even if upstream cannot, due to portability constraints.
>
> That's not strictly true, which is the reason why I haven't already
> switched Linux
Dominique Dumont writes:
> On Friday, 18 November 2016 09:34:03 CET Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Guillem did some more investigation, and sadly it turns out that raw
>> UTF-8 in man pages continues to break even completely current man
>> implementations on platforms like macOS.
>
On Friday, 18 November 2016 09:34:03 CET Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem did some more investigation, and sadly it turns out that raw UTF-8
> in man pages continues to break even completely current man
> implementations on platforms like macOS.
That's a constraint we do not have on Debian/unstable.
Niko Tyni writes:
> 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.
Guillem did some more investigation, and sadly it turns out that raw UTF-8
in man pages
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
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):
Compare:
$ man perlunicook | grep -A 4 '$measure'
my $measure =
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