On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 02:08 PM, Gisle Aas wrote:
pod2html in perl-5.15.9 uses Pod::Simple::XHTML to do its work; and
Pod::Simple::XHTML is different than other POD formatters in that it enables
'codes_in_verbatim' feature of Pod::Simple.
I don't like this inconsistency. I believe
On 12-04-24 11:48 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:46 PM, chromatic wrote:
Any objections?
Yes; I use this feature.
Better to make it an option in pod2html to turn it off. Or perhaps it turns it
off by default, and you need an option to turn it on.
I agree. It's best to
Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com writes:
I agree. It's best to have it conform to the behaviour of the rest and
have an option of changing that behaviour. Which leads to the question:
do any of the rest have this option and, if not, should they?
It's directly contrary to the POD
On 12-04-25 11:22 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think a better approach would have been to add a new command (=formatted
or something) that had these semantics rather than changing the
interpretation of existing verbatim paragraphs.
It would be better if it used the =begin/=for/=end syntax:
Hi POD people
There's been a discussion on #metacpan about non-ASCII characters in POD
being rendered incorrectly on the metacpan.org web site.
The short story is that some people use utf8 characters without
including: =encoding utf8. Apparently the metacpan tool chain assumes
latin1 encoding,
