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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