Bug#840211: perlunicook man page does not display utf8 char beyond ascii

[Dominique Dumont]

Package: perl
Version: 5.24.1~rc3-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

In perlunicook man page, non-ASCII utf-8 char are replaced by 'X'
(which is a shame on a man page dealing with unicode and utf8 issue):

Compare:

  $ man perlunicook | grep -A 4 '$measure'
        my $measure   = "Aangstroem";
        my @Xsoft     = qw( cp852 cp1251 cp1252 );
        my @XXXXXXXXX = qw( XXXX  XXXXX );
        my @X        = qw( koi8-f koi8-u koi8-r );
        my $motto     = "X X X"; # FAMILY, GROWING HEART, DROMEDARY CAMEL


with:

  $ perldoc perlunicook | grep -A 4 '$measure'
     my $measure   = "Ångström";
     my @μsoft     = qw( cp852 cp1251 cp1252 );
     my @ὑπέρμεγας = qw( ὑπέρ  μεγας );
     my @鯉        = qw( koi8-f koi8-u koi8-r );
     my $motto     = "👪 💗 🐪"; # FAMILY, GROWING HEART, DROMEDARY CAMEL

Turns out that /usr/share/man/man1/perlunicook.1.gz does not contain utf8 char.

I guess that this file was generated by pod2man without --utf8 option.

Could you please fix the generation of these man pages ?

All the best



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