Bug#424020: libtk-pod-perl: Pod/Text.pm diffs seems to be wrong

[Carlo Segre]

Hi Slaven:

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Slaven Rezic wrote:

>
> It seems that the debian version includes a patch to Pod/Text.pm, which
> changes the umlauts there to some nroff (?) notation, e.g.
>
> -=item auml: E<auml> ä,
> +=item auml: E<auml> \[:a],
>
> I don't see what the purpose of this change. tkpod may display the
> original Pod correctly. My version of perldoc changes the umlaut to ae
> in the original version; with the change "\[:a]" is displayed literally.
>

Sorry for the delay in responding to this.  i will look into it to remind 
myself why I had to change it.  I believe it has to do with generating 
lintian errors in the other form but I just can't remember right now.

It would help me to figure this out if you could point me to a module 
which has this character in it so that I can see how it behaves.  I 
presume that this is within the tkpod browser.

Cheers,

Carlo

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