[Po4a-devel] Bug#480997: pod2man turns UTF8 into "X"s

Nicolas François nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Sun Jul 20 21:33:59 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 02:23:06PM -0700, rra at debian.org wrote:
> 
> Could you give me an example so that I can understand the problem?

Here's the POD version of the French translation of the po4a.1 manpage.

You can look for "suivant.:" in this file and in the generated file.

When "S<suivant :>" generates "suivant\xA0:", this lead an invalid UTF-8
file, which will be considered as a latin-1 file by programs like vim or man.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral
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