Bug#702742: libpod-sax-perl: emits latin-1 entities incorrectly

[brian m. carlson]

Package: libpod-sax-perl
Version: 0.14-5
Severity: normal
Forwarded: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83867

Using named HTML entities causes them to be output as a sequence of two
characters:
 
  =item * E<216> Ø E<Oslash>

produces:

  <listitem>&#xD8; &#xD8; &#xC3;&#x98; </listitem>

The %HTML_Escapes hash in Pod::SAX::Parser maps Oslash to "\xC3\x98",
which is then passed directly to the characters method.  This is wrong
because the Perl SAX documentation states:

  All handler methods have a single argument; a hash reference. Hash
  values are Unicode strings (scalars with UTF-8 flag on).

So the appropriate mapping here is:

  Oslash => "\xd8"

This is the case for all entities outside of ASCII that Pod::SAX
understands.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh-static

Versions of packages libpod-sax-perl depends on:
ii  libxml-sax-perl         0.99+dfsg-2
ii  libxml-sax-writer-perl  0.53-1
ii  perl                    5.14.2-19

libpod-sax-perl recommends no packages.

libpod-sax-perl suggests no packages.

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