[Po4a-devel] Bug#480997: pod2man turns UTF8 into "X"s

[Russ Allbery]

Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net> writes:

> In fact it is not that far from being implemented.
> What is missing is an option to modify the "convert" formatting option of
> Pod::Man from pod2man.
>
> Here is a patch to do that.
> It adds a "convert" option to Pod::Man (set by default), and a --noascii
> option to pod2man, which permits to disable the Pod::Man's convert option.

Thank you for the patch!  It has a few misunderstandings (Pod::Simple
always converts the input character set to UTF-8 and handles all E<>
escapes internally, for example), but I think it looks like the right
approach, and it's much simpler than I expected.

I'm going to try to get a release out today that incorporates a version of
this patch.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>