This release adds a new --utf8 option to pod2man and corresponding Pod::Man configuration option to write UTF-8 characters to the resulting *roff output rather than trying to convert the characters to troff escapes or just X for unknown characters. This is a separate option rather than the default since UTF-8 characters are known to break some vendor *roff implementations and the resulting *roff output is therefore not portable. Linux distributions may wish to consider enabling this by default, although there isn't a good way to do that as yet without patching the module (and the documentation!). I also fixed various other bugs turned up by Debian's switch to Perl 5.10. Debian Perl maintainers, you will probably want to switch to this version of Pod::Man before lenny. The URL http://archives.eyrie.org/software/modules/podlators-2.1.0.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/R/RR/RRA/podlators-2.1.0.tar.gz size: 80707 bytes md5: 9d4283c0975f8dfdedc47ca15ed63496 Changes since the previous release: 2008-06-01 Russ Allbery <rra(a)stanford.edu&gt; * VERSION: podlators 2.1.0 released. * Makefile.PL: Add LICENSE. * lib/Pod/Man.pm (format_text): If the utf8 option is set, don't convert non-ASCII characters to *roff escapes or X. Document the utf8 option. * scripts/pod2man.PL: New option -u or --utf8 says to output literal UTF-8 characters rather than pure ASCII. * t/man-options.t: New file. Test the utf8 option. * t/man.t: Be more cautious about passing an encoding to binmode to allow for a Perl without PerlIO. * lib/Pod/Man.pm (switchquotes): Match text between \f(CW and \fP or \fR in headings non-greedily to get the fonts right with multiple C<> formatting codes. * t/man.t: Test =head1 with multiple C<> codes. 2008-05-14 Russ Allbery <rra(a)stanford.edu&gt; * lib/Pod/Man.pm (preamble_template): Protect .Sh text against leading *roff control characters since some *roff implementations apparently "look through" font escapes at the beginning of lines. 2008-05-12 Russ Allbery <rra(a)stanford.edu&gt; * lib/Pod/Man.pm (format_text): Escape backslashes separately from processing non-ASCII characters and do that, dash escaping, and underscore adjustment before processing non-ASCII characters. Otherwise, we escape the hyphen in eth characters. * t/man.t: Test for handling of eth. -- Russ Allbery (rra(a)stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>