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

On Thu Nov 18 13:50:04 2010, waterlan@xs4all.nl wrote:
> 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.
> 

> 
> 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.
> 
> 

Since Pod::Man, as part of podlators, is now maintained on CPAN, I have
entered this issue into that distribution's bug queue:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=73804

Should we close this ticket?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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• Re: [perl #79410] Pod2man creates wrong ROFF esc sequences for Latin-1characters. by Erwin Waterlander
• [perl #79410] Pod2man creates wrong ROFF esc sequences for Latin-1 characters. by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #79410] Pod2man creates wrong ROFF esc sequences for Latin-1characters. by Joaquín Ferrero
• [perl #79410] Pod2man creates wrong ROFF esc sequences for Latin-1 characters. by James E Keenan via RT