On Sun Feb 17 17:39:51 2008, mikel@mikelward.com wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from mikel@mikelward.com, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.8. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please enter your report here] > Man pages have some weird rules for ASCII characters. > By default, ` is translated to left single quote rather than > backtick, and - is translated to hyphen rather than minus. > > A good description of this is in section 2 (Font and Character > Size Control) in the original Nroff/Troff User's Manual > <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/troff.pdf>. > > Pod::Man, and hence pod2man, which generates the Perl man pages > like perlop doesn't make this translation. > > If your character set if UTF-8, this causes the backticks in the > perlop man page to appear similar to an apostrophe, and means I > can't search for the backticks. > > I have tested Perl 5.8.8 and Perl 5.10. > The attached patch was added to the podlators distribution and added to bleadperl with change #33987. Thanks!