[Bug 1003471] New: Manual pages generated from POD have almost all Unicode characters mangled to X

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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(a)redhat.com
          Reporter: ppisar(a)redhat.com
        QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: perl-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, ppisar(a)redhat.com



$ 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.)

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