Bug#1020574: perl-doc: encoding issue / spelling mistake with "perldoc perlfaq4"

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Fri Sep 23 19:53:26 BST 2022


On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:13:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Pod::Man breaks here in a different way because it interprets the
> diaeresis as a German umlaut and assumes you can just stick an e after it
> if you don't have umlauts available.  My understanding is that this German
> umlaut conversion is only correct for ä, ö, and ü, not for ï (which I
> don't believe is a character in German, at least from some quick
> searching).

Your assumptions about German umlauts are correct :)

Cheers,
gregor

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