$ pod2man --quotes=

From	Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject	$ pod2man --quotes=
Date	2013-06-27 15:20 +0000
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>>>>> Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> writes:
>>>>> Quoth Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>:
>>>>> Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> writes:

[...]

 >>> The characters passed to --quotes aren't the characters as they
 >>> will appear in the output, they are roff escapes.  (I don't really
 >>> understand roff, but the characters you pass are inserted directly
 >>> into a .ds line.)

 >> Which means that it may require a more thorough code change to fix
 >> the issue.  (Thanks for the pointer, BTW.)

 > ... no, it means that changing it would break backcompat, so it's
 > probably not going to happen.

	How would it?  Currently, the use of --quotes= with arguments
	other than the two-octet ones and "none" results in an error.
	Having pod2man interpret multi-octet sequences as two-character
	ones looks like a "pure" extension.

	Besides, that appears to contradict your own claim below that
	"pod2man [is not being run] with --quotes for a very long time."

 > (Not to mention that the whole question of dealing with non-ASCII
 > command-line arguments is largely unsolved on non-Win32 systems.)

	On POSIX systems, I'd expect non-ASCII command-line arguments to
	be passed as octet sequences, in the encoding specified by the
	LC_CTYPE category.

	It has worked for me so far, BTW.

 >>> Remember, all this stuff comes from perl 5.000, before perl (or
 >>> groff, I expect) had any sort of Unicode support.

 >> How could this justify having the bug remain unfixed?

 > Because noone in a position to change it thinks it's a bug, or thinks
 > it's worth fixing?  We're talking about pod2man here; I doubt
 > anyone's run it with --quotes for a very long time.

	Which appears to make the compatibility concerns irrelevant.

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Thread

CPAN vs. POD outside of .pm (.pl) files? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-06-17 14:20 +0000
  Re: CPAN vs. POD outside of .pm (.pl) files? Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-06-17 16:12 +0100
    Re: CPAN vs. POD outside of .pm (.pl) files? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-06-17 15:39 +0000
      Re: CPAN vs. POD outside of .pm (.pl) files? Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-06-17 21:03 +0100
        Re: CPAN vs. POD outside of .pm (.pl) files? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 05:42 +0000
          Re: CPAN vs. POD outside of .pm (.pl) files? Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-06-27 08:12 +0100
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                Re: issues with POD Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-06-27 14:53 +0100
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                Re: issues with POD Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 15:25 +0000
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