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pod2man generates invalid roff #11977
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From tchrist@perl.comOn the systems I tested it on, the manpages whose pods contain non-ASCII This is wrong: $ man perlhist| grep var And this is intolerable: $ man perlcn NAME DESCRIPTION X 5.8.0 XXX, Perl XXXXXX Unicode (XXX) XX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX; CJK (XXX) XXXXXXXX. Unicode XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX: XXXX, XXXX, Perl XXX Unicode XXXX. XXX Perl XXXXXXXXXX Unicode XX; Perl XXXXXX (XXXXXXXXX) XXX Unicode XXXX. XXXXXXX, XXXXX Unicode The bug is that while you are allowed to and encouraged to declare The following podpages show the problem: perlebcdic.pod perl588delta.pod perlcn.pod --tom Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 0) configuration: Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): |
From @jkeenanOn Wed Feb 29 13:04:43 2012, tom christiansen wrote:
Is this a problem that can be fixed in the 'pod2man' utility? Or does it require corrections of individual .pod files? Or both? Or neither? Thank you very much. |
The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' |
From @mrallen1On Wed Sep 26 19:07:49 2012, jkeenan wrote:
Hi. I'm the current maintainer of Pod::Perldoc. In 90% of the cases where the output from Getting clean non-ASCII characters typically requires a groff >= 1.20.1 and within the context So I would say this report is inconclusive. It may well be that pod2man is generating proper roff Mark |
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From @mrallen1On Wed Sep 26 19:07:49 2012, jkeenan wrote:
Hi. I'm the current maintainer of Pod::Perldoc. In 90% of the cases where the output from Getting clean non-ASCII characters typically requires a groff >= 1.20.1 and within the context So I would say this report is inconclusive. It may well be that pod2man is generating proper roff Mark |
Migrated from rt.perl.org#111448 (status was 'open')
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