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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2022-09-23 19:36:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> writes:
> > If naïve is correct, I find it strange that none of dict-gcide, dict-wn
> > and dict-foldoc have it, while they know "naive". Ditto for naïvely vs
> > naively in dict-gcide and dict-wn.
> 
> Maybe they don't cope with accent marks?  I'm not sure what to tell you
> other than that good English dictionaries are (unfortunately) proprietary
> and the freely available dictionaries, while useful for many things, are
> of poorer quality.

Dictionaries can cope with non-ASCII characters (e.g. fd-eng-fra
and fd-fra-eng). But it may be because that dict-gcide has broken
encoding (as seen on "cafe", which is listed as "Caf'e", but
"naive" is just listed as "naive", and this is from 1913 Webster in
particular, though the ï is suggested as ["i] in the definition).

> All that said, it *is* much more common than not to omit the diaeresis,
> and that is certainly a simple solution to this specific bug.  (But as
> Pod::Text and Pod::Man maintainer, I'm glad that you reported it because I
> think there are deeper bugs in both modules that I need to fix.)

Yes, this could be a solution for this bug. However, since there are
other potential issues with author names having non-ASCII characters
that might be found elsewhere.

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