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

[Dominique Dumont]

On Friday, 18 November 2016 10:54:36 CET Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Considering [1], we may want to patch Debian's perl to produce utf8 man
> > pages even if upstream cannot, due to portability constraints.
> 
> That's not strictly true, which is the reason why I haven't already
> switched Linux systems over to generating UTF-8 by default.  This means
> that you cannot create man pages with pod2man on a Linux system and have
> them work on any other system, something that pod2man has, up until this
> point, always guaranteed.

Looks like I was not clear. I was thinking of patching perl build system to 
generate  perl* man page (perlrun perlunicook...) as utf8 man page. 

That should not impact the generation of other man pages (i.e. not in Debian 
perl package) using pod2man.

HTH
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