Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> writes: > When I have this small perl file: > --- > =head1 TEST
> =over > =item > Test > =item > Test > =back > --- > And using "perldoc file.pl", I get the output: > ... > · Test > ... > This is the UTF-8 representation of a "·". But I do not have UTF-8 at > all and also my locales (see below) tells this. Also the file is no > UTF-8 than latin1. (Well, in this test case it it ASCII 7bit.) This bug was from quite some time ago (eight years), and I think it dates from when perldoc was using Pod::Man and nroff by default. Pod::Man uses the \(bu character escape, so I think this bug was actually an nroff bug rather than a Perl or perldoc bug, although it may have been a problem with the flags that perldoc passed to nroff. However, more to the point, perldoc was switched to use Pod::Text by default some time ago, so you now have to use "-n nroff" to get this behavior. Pod::Text does not attempt to use any fancy bullets (it just uses "*"), so you should no longer see this problem by default. I think it may therefore be worth closing as fixed by default, although it's still possible to get the nroff output. I tried to test whether nroff still did the same thing in an ISO 8859-1 locale, but ran into the fact that non-UTF-8 locales have been deprecated in Debian and are no longer easily configurable as of locales 2.31-14 from last year, so I'm no longer sure of the right way to test this on a system that wasn't already using an ISO 8859-1 locale. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
