[perl #79410] Pod2man creates wrong ROFF esc sequences for Latin-1 characters.

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This is a bug report for perl from waterlan@xs4all.nl,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.10.1.


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[Please describe your issue here]

Hi,

I have a pod file encoded in Latin-1. The 8-bit Latin-1 characters
are converted wrongly to ROFF.

For instance an a-accute is translated to
  \*'
while it should be
  \['a]

An e with dieresis is translated to \*: instead of \[:e]

In fact all characters with dieresis are translated to \*:
and all characters with accute to \*'
and with grave to \*`
and so on.

best regards,

Erwin Waterlander

PS
I have never used perlbug before, I hope I can attach a
file after this.
...
Sending mail with perlbug failed. I'm now sending with Thunderbird and 
attach a test case.


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Flags:
     category=utilities
     severity=high
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.1:

Configured by rurban at Sat Aug 28 20:14:06 CEST 2010.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration:

   Platform:
     osname=cygwin, osvers=1.7.5(0.22553), 
archname=i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int
     uname='cygwin_nt-5.1 reini 1.7.5(0.22553) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 
cygwin '
     config_args='-de -Dlibperl=cygperl5_10.dll -Dcc=gcc-4 -Dld=g++-4 
-Dmksymlinks -Dusethreads -Dmad=y -Doptimize=-O3 -Accflags=-g3'
     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
     useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
     useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
     use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
     usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
   Compiler:
     cc='gcc-4', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -g3 
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include',
     optimize='-O3',
     cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -g3 
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
     ccversion='', gccversion='4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1', gccosandvers=''
     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
     ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, 
Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
     alignbytes=8, prototype=define
   Linker and Libraries:
     ld='g++-4', ldflags =' -Wl,--enable-auto-import 
-Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--stack,8388608 
-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
     libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
     libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat
     perllibs=-ldl -lcrypt
     libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=cygperl5_10.dll
     gnulibc_version=''
   Dynamic Linking:
     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
     cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' --shared  -Wl,--enable-auto-import 
-Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--stack,8388608 
-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:
     CYG11 no-bs
     CYG12 no archlib in otherlibdirs
     CYG14 Dynaloader
     CYG15 static-Win32CORE
     CYG17 utf8-paths
     CYG21 LibList-Kid.patch
     CYG22 cygwin-1.7 hints
     CYG23 544-stat
     CYG24 build man pages
     CYG25 rebase_privlib
     Module-Build-0.36_13
     Bug#55162 CYG18 File::Spec::case_tolerant performance
     disable ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Coverage in Sys-Syslog

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@INC for perl 5.10.1:
     /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin
     /usr/lib/perl5/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
     .

---
Environment for perl 5.10.1:
     HOME=/cygdrive/c/Users/waterlan
     LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
     LANGUAGE (unset)
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
     LOGDIR (unset)
     
PATH=/cygdrive/c/Users/waterlan/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program 
Files/PC Connectivity 
Solution/:/cygdrive/c/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/cygdrive/c/WATCOM18/BINNT:/cygdrive/c/WATCOM18/BINW
     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
     SHELL (unset)

• [perl #79410] Pod2man creates wrong ROFF esc sequences for Latin-1 characters. by Erwin Waterlander