reassign 291391 groff thanks On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:27:57PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: >pod2man inserts a block of groffese to turn the ordinary, every day '|' >character (U+007C VERTICAL LINE = VERTICAL BAR) into the extra-ordinary >'???' character (U+2502 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL). > >This means, for instance, that '$|' gets turned into '$???', '||' into >'??????', and so on.
pod2man doesn't appear to be doing anything special with vertical bars, but it appears that groff is (for utf8 at any rate). See attached test.pod and outputs from the following: pod2man test.pod >test.roff groff -Tlatin1 -man test.roff >test.latin1 groff -Tutf8 -man test.roff >test.utf8 Note that the | is unmolested in all but the last (test.utf8). --bod
=head1 NAME test =head1 DESCRIPTION Test for Bug#291391. Bar here: | and here: | =cut
test.roff
Description: Troff document
TEST(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation TEST(1) NNAAMMEE test DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN Test for Bug#291391. Bar here: | and here: | perl v5.8.4 2005-01-23 TEST(1)
TEST(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation TEST(1) NNAAMMEE test DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN Test for Bug#291391. Bar here: │ and here: │ perl v5.8.4 2005‐01‐23 TEST(1)