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

[Russ Allbery]

Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:

> 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.

Guillem did some more investigation, and sadly it turns out that raw UTF-8
in man pages continues to break even completely current man
implementations on platforms like macOS.

> 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?

I still haven't done anything.  :(  It looks like any solution will
require generating non-portable man pages.  Maybe that doesn't matter any
more, and I should just default to generating UTF-8 man pages on any Linux
platform.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>