How do I use Unicode characters in Pod and perldoc?

Question

I need to use utf-8 characters in my perl-documentation. If I use:

perldoc MyMod.pm

I see strange characters. If I use:

pod         


        

Answer 1

Found this RT ticket.... http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39000

This "bug" seems to be introduced with Perl 5.10 and perhaps this pod2man --utf8 needs to be used.

Answer 2

Use =encoding utf-8 as the first POD directive in your file, and use a fairly recent perldoc (for example from 5.10-maint). Then it should work.

Answer 3

perldoc -t MyMod.pm

From the perldoc manual:

-t Display pod using pod2text instead of Pod::Man and groff (-t is the default on win32 unless -n is specified)