https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003471 Bug ID: 1003471 Summary: Manual pages generated from POD have almost all Unicode characters mangled to X Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Component: perl-podlators Assignee: ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx Reporter: ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx QA Contact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx $ cat test =encoding utf8 =head1 Kroužkovci Žížala =cut $ pod2man test |tail .\" .IX Title "TEST 1" .TH TEST 1 "2013-09-02" "perl v5.18.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "KrouXkovci" .IX Header "KrouXkovci" Xi\*'Xala This is caused by upstream decision to have pod2man output compatible with all ROFFs. That means to pass ASCII charachtes, escape ISO-8859-1 characters, and to replace others with plain `X' (<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68741>). There is pod2man option --utf8 which disables any escaping and outputs UTF-8, but this is not default behaviour. This makes all manual pages from built packages to be mangled. See Debian bug report <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480997>. Question is what to do. Should we be faster than upstream and make UTF-8 output default? Should defaults you locale encoding? (Fedora packages are built in C locale.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. Unsubscribe from this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/token.cgi?t=1dZWcp091d&a=cc_unsubscribe -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
