Bug#587733: doesn't recognize =encoding

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:41:15PM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> I can confirm that the encoding directive does not work with
> Pod::PlanText.  And looking through the documentation (perldoc -m
> Pod::PlainText) there is no indication that it supports =encoding.
> 
> I believe the page referred to 
> [http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html#=encoding-_encodingname_]
> is talking about using =encoding with perldoc which uses Pod::Perldoc
> and does support =encoding.
> 
> Perhaps the status of this bug should be changed to 'wishlist' for
> Pod::PlainText to add support for =encoding.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpodspec.html#Pod-Commands

isn't explicit, but does confirm that =encoding is part of POD,
which suggests to me that Pod::PlainText could reasonably be expected
to support it.

Dominic.

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