[perl #68964] pod2html doesn't interpret E<> codes correctly for Octal and Hex

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This is a bug report for perl from samv@wilber.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.


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E<0x2070> gets rendered to: &0x2070;, not &#x2070; as it should, by
pod2html.  Also, octal entities will need to be expressed in either
&#DECIMAL; or &#xHEX;

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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.0:

Configured by samv at Tue Dec 18 14:48:01 NZDT 2007.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0 patch 32632) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-5-amd64, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    uname='linux wilber 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 smp sun aug 12 20:31:42 utc 2007 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Duseithreads -Duse64bitall -Duselongdouble -Duseshrplib -Dusemymalloc -de'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=define
    usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=16, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=16, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64
    libs=-lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.6.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.3.6'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    RC2

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@INC for perl 5.10.0:
    /home/samv/perl/lib/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    /home/samv/perl/lib
    /home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    /home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    /home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/5.10.0
    /home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    /home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    /home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
    .
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
    .

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Environment for perl 5.10.0:
    HOME=/home/samv
    LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/samv/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
    PERL5LIB=/home/samv/perl/lib:/home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld:/home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/5.10.0:/home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld:/home/samv/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [perl #68964] pod2html doesn't interpret E<> codes correctly for Octal and Hex by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #68964] pod2html doesn't interpret E<> codes correctlyfor Octal and Hex by Abhijit Menon-Sen