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, b
Grant McLean writes:
> My thoughts on the second issue are that we could modify Pod::Simple to
> 'whine' if it sees non-ASCII bytes but no =encoding. This in turn would
> cause Test::Pod to pick up the error and help people fix it.
I would be in favor of that.
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Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.e
On 04/25/2012 09:25 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Grant McLean writes:
My thoughts on the second issue are that we could modify Pod::Simple to
'whine' if it sees non-ASCII bytes but no =encoding. This in turn would
cause Test::Pod to pick up the error and help people fix it.
I would be in favor o
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 15:23 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
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 u
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:10 AM, Grant McLean wrote:
> OK, so I went ahead and implemented both the warning and the heuristic
> to guess Latin-1 vs UTF-8 (only when no encoding was specified). The
> resulting patch is here:
>
> https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/pull/26
I like this, but wonder
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 09:17 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:10 AM, Grant McLean wrote:
>
> > OK, so I went ahead and implemented both the warning and the heuristic
> > to guess Latin-1 vs UTF-8 (only when no encoding was specified). The
> > resulting patch is here:
> >
>
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Grant McLean wrote:
> I'm not sure I quite understand what you're saying. The first time a
> non-ASCII byte is encountered, the code will 'fire' and apply the
> heuristic to set an encoding. Once the encoding is set, the code won't
> be called again.
Oh, perfect. I
Grant McLean writes:
> OK, so I went ahead and implemented both the warning and the heuristic
> to guess Latin-1 vs UTF-8 (only when no encoding was specified). The
> resulting patch is here:
>
> https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/pull/26
This patch enforces authors to add an "=encoding UTF
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 14:24 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Grant McLean writes:
>
> > OK, so I went ahead and implemented both the warning and the heuristic
> > to guess Latin-1 vs UTF-8 (only when no encoding was specified). The
> > resulting patch is here:
> >
> > https://github.com/theory/po
