Hi guys,

All my single quotes in perldoc (pod) documentation are represented by garbage characters. Double quotes are fine.
This issue does not appear in man pages or anywhere else I've seen.
Unicode is working fine AFAIK.
Same result in xterm,aterm,eterm,konsole and gnome-terminal.

Converting from pod to text with pod2text works fine (i.e. single quotes are correct).

[Edit: the hyphen character '-' exhibits this behavior as well -- but only sometimes]

the only thing i can think of is smart quotes and the long hyphen, however i looked at the source of the pod files and this doesn't seem to be the case, any ideas?

[Edit: the structural format seems to be messed up too -- but works fine with perldoc -t (plaintext) or changing $TERM to 'dumb') -- any pointers to docs that might help would be appreciated as well]

thanks!

Improperly locales setting, non-unicode chars in manpages ?

I would try to invoke documentation with basic locales:

sweet! that completely fixed it.
I had all the locale env vars set to en_US.UTF-8 so I figured everything was fine there...guess i should have checked closer -- as I found that if I change LC_ALL=en_US everything looks fine as well. so must be a unicode issue.

I'm not using Slackware. I'm actually using Debian but this thread seems relevant to my problem so I'm posting it here. I'm having the same problem with garbage characters, except as far as I can tell it's only in aterm and not all the time. I come across it when I use man. If I use man with xterm though there's no problem. Examples of what happens:

- Hyphen at the end of a line (to continue a word to the next line) is replaced by garbage.
- This quote: ´ is shown but is preceded by upper case A with a cirumflex accent on top of it.
- This quote: ‘ is not shown but is replaced by lower case a with a circumflex accent on top of it, and is followed by two square boxes.

If I change the LANG environment variable to C, then there's no problem since the characters are replaced by others which to the human eye are equivalent. But what if there's something such as: é ? Then there's no equivalent to replace it with and you still get garbage.