Bug#738189: perldoc does not respect the user locale

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.18.2-2
Severity: normal

When I have this small perl file:
- ---
=head1 TEST

=over

=item

Test

=item

Test

=back
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And using "perldoc file.pl", I get the output:

   ...
   ·   Test
   ...

This is the UTF-8 representation of a "·". But I do not have UTF-8 at
all and also my locales (see below) tells this. Also the file is no
UTF-8 than latin1. (Well, in this test case it it ASCII 7bit.)

Please fix perldoc to respect the user setting for locale respective
charset.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (600, 'oldstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11.6 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl  5.18.2-2

perl-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-doc suggests:
ii  groff                 1.22.2-5
ii  man-db [man-browser]  2.6.6-1

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Klaus Ethgen                              http://www.ethgen.ch/
pub  4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16   Klaus Ethgen <Klaus at Ethgen.de>
Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753  62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C
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