Comments on: Fixing the POD synopsis in OSX – take 2 (perldoc, nroff and UTF-8) http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/ Listen. Reflect. Explore. Solve. Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TimBunce http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/#comment-775 Tue, 26 May 2009 10:36:07 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=273#comment-775 Interesting, but I don’t see a MANOPT env var or a -E option for man on Linux (CentOS 5) or OS X (Leopard).
/etc/man.config defines the args passed to nroff etc., and that has some comments re character sets.

]]> By: bsb http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/#comment-772 Tue, 26 May 2009 06:25:24 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=273#comment-772 I added the following to .bashrc at some stage but have lost track
of the details.

export MANOPT=’-E ascii’ # avoid apostrophes going unicode

]]> By: TimBunce http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/#comment-723 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:39:29 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=273#comment-723 Pedro Melo nails a solution in http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2009/05/fixing_the_pod.html

]]> By: TimBunce http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/#comment-721 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:29:56 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=273#comment-721 I like that, but won’t it mangle any latin1 (etc.) characters in the docs?

]]> By: Dominic Mitchell http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/#comment-714 Wed, 20 May 2009 08:04:42 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=273#comment-714 Actually, that’s very odd. I get ordinary hyphens. I suspect that I would get Unicode characters as my locale is en_GB.UTF-8. Curiouser and curiouser…

]]> By: Dominic Mitchell http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/#comment-713 Wed, 20 May 2009 07:56:22 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=273#comment-713 The *roff code for a hyphen is \-. I can’t see that mentioned anywhere in that file. I have a sneaky suspicion that it’s a “builtin” thing…

Looking in /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devascii/R, I can see a line:

\- 24 0 0055

According to the docs, that means that when it sees \- on input, it gets mapped to octal 55 (or a hyphen). So that’s not it either.

Just out of interest, what is the output of locale for you? I wonder if that may be affecting things somehow…

]]> By: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/19/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx-take-2-perldoc-nroff-and-utf-8/#comment-710 Tue, 19 May 2009 23:28:13 +0000 http://timbunce.wordpress.com/?p=273#comment-710 My workaround for that problem was alias perldoc=’env LANG=C perldoc’.

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