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

Fri Nov 18 18:05:24 UTC 2016

On Friday, 18 November 2016 09:34:03 CET Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

That's a constraint we do not have on Debian/unstable.

Considering [1], we may want to patch Debian's perl to produce utf8 man pages 
even if upstream cannot, due to portability constraints.  

All the best.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/utf-8
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