Niko Tyni <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:02:38PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> When a man page generated by pod2man which includes umlauts is viewed >> with man in an xterm, the umlaut is not shown but 'Xe' is displayed >> instead. According to Colin Watson, pod2man has some *roff code that >> tries to manually place the umlaut. It would be nice if pod2man would >> support the predefined :u input character. > I believe Russ (as the pod2man upstream maintainer) is not willing > to make it output groff specific sequences by default for portability > reasons. Even doing this as a Debian-specific change would mean that > other systems could not read the Debian manpages. > Invoking pod2man with the --utf8 option (present since Lenny) makes > it generate raw utf8, which should work fine on Debian (modulo POD > documents with a wrong or missing =encoding.) > See also > http://bugs.debian.org/492037 > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2008-06/002.html . > I think Russ is getting this too so I'm sure he'll speak up if he's > got something to add :) That's a good summary. Since groff can now handle Unicode input directly, the groff-specific escapes are probably not more portable than just using Unicode output. pod2man still defaults to being maximally conservative, but with the -u option, you should get the behavior that you want. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
