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

[Robert Luberda]

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:

Hi, 

> > Package: perl-doc
> > Version: 5.10.0-10
> >
> > UTF8 gets turned into "X" by pod2man, besides other disturbing issues:
> 
> pod2man doesn't support non-ISO characters because doing so completely
> breaks (and by breaks, I mean up to and including segfaults) nroff on some
> platforms and the intention is that pod2man output be portable nroff.

Previous version (5.8.8) does support it.  Anyway, this bug breaks 
po4a package.  After rebuilding po4a with new pod2man almast all its 
translated man pages are unreadable...

Regards,
robert