Bug#840211: perlunicook man page does not display utf8 char beyond ascii

[Niko Tyni]

severity 401089 normal
reassign 840211 perl-doc 5.24.1~rc3-3
forcemerge 840211 401089
forwarded 401089 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68741
thanks

On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 05:30:23PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.24.1~rc3-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> In perlunicook man page, non-ASCII utf-8 char are replaced by 'X'
> (which is a shame on a man page dealing with unicode and utf8 issue):

Indeed. This is also #401089, merging. A workaround is using 'perldoc'
instead of the man pages.

> I guess that this file was generated by pod2man without --utf8 option.

Yes.
 
> Could you please fix the generation of these man pages ?

I think upstream (Russ and iirc others on p5p too) have been stepping
very carefully here due to compatibility issues with older nroff
implementations and the like.

There's [rt.cpan.org #68741] upstream, quoting Russ in 2011: "I'm
currently leaning towards outputing UTF-8 by default, but I'm kicking
around the idea of trying to use the user's locale."

Russ, any thoughts about the current status?
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