On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 11:24, Beton, Richard wrote: > http://search.cpan.org/dist/W3C-LinkChecker/bin/checklink.pod > The page is encoded using ISO8859-1 but this looks like a mistake. I > suspect that UTF-8 was intended. There are quite a few extended > characters that have become muddled. Right. It's a known problem, and AFAICS we cannot directly do anything about it; whatever creates the HTMLified POD pages for search.cpan.org hardcodes iso-8859-1 into a <meta> tag in the markup :( I remember trying out a lot of different charset/entity options and hacks in the POD, all of which broke somewhere, so I decided to get rid of all the hacks, and have the content in plain UTF-8. The search.cpan.org breakage was the least bad of many bad options IMO. Perl 5.8.3's perlpod(1) documents the "=encoding encodingname" directive which in theory could help, but it seems to be 100% unimplemented, even podchecker(1) doesn't grok it :(Received on Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:40:34 UTC
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