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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3


Erwin Waterlander writes:
> You are right. When I remove PERL_UNICODE a correct the html is
> correct. Correct title and correct content, all nicely in UTF-8.

Good.

> I added PERL_UNICODE=SDA, because of perl 5.18 (on Linux). Perl 5.18
> pod2html produces a wrong html title (double encoded?) when I don't
> set PERL_UNICODE. I find it weird that I have to set PERL_UNICODE for
> perl 5.18 while I'm in an UTF-8 environment.

Even the version of pod2html in 5.18 is not really unicode-aware.  The
Debian bugtracker has a few bits of information on why the fixes in one
place produce holes in others.

> I also don't like all the ampersand codes that perl 5.18 produces
> instead of UTF-8. The output of perl 5.14 pod2html is much better.

>From the standpoint of HTTP server and browser compatibility these are
better on the other hand.


Regards,
Achim.
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