[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#723882: Bug#723882: FTBFS: POD errors

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Louis Bettens, 20.09.2013 22:21:54 +0200 |=-
> Howdy perl group!
[added to cc]

> That's because of a unicode character in a proper name. I tried
> adding a "=encoding utf8" line and it solved the problem. Patch
> coming.
> This only seems to happen in the latest versions because I had to
> run "pbuilder update" in order to reproduce the bug. Did pod2man get
> more severe lately?

Yes. Perl 5.18 and accompanying POD modules became more strict.

> Note that on my system, the resulting man page has accents
> flattened, that is to say ö becomes oe and ù becomes u.

That's expected. See pod2man(1):

  -u, --utf8
      By default, pod2man produces the most conservative possible *roff
      output to try to ensure that it will work with as many different
      *roff implementations as possible.  Many *roff implementations
      cannot handle non-ASCII characters, so this means all non-ASCII
      characters are converted either to a *roff escape sequence that
      tries to create a properly accented character (at least for troff
      output) or to "X".

      This option says to instead output literal UTF-8 characters.  If
      your *roff implementation can handle it, this is the best output
      format to use and avoids corruption of documents containing non-
      ASCII characters.  However, be warned that *roff source with
      literal UTF-8 characters is not supported by many implementations
      and may even result in segfaults and other bad behavior.

      Be aware that, when using this option, the input encoding of your
      POD source must be properly declared unless it is US-ASCII or
      Latin-1.  POD input without an "=encoding" command will be assumed
      to be in Latin-1, and if it's actually in UTF-8, the output will be
      double-encoded.  See perlpod(1) for more information on the
      "=encoding" command.

Thanks for the quick fix!
    dam
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