[Omaha.pm] garbage in perldoc (dashes become â characters, etc.)
Jay Hannah
jhannah at omnihotels.com
Mon Apr 16 09:55:15 PDT 2007
Looks like the default LANG environment variable in SuSE 10 Enterprise
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Makes perldoc unreadable...
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perldoc perl
NAME
perl â Practical Extraction and Report Language
SYNOPSIS
perl [ âsTuU ] [ âhv ] [ âV[:configvar] ]
[ âcw ] [ âd[:debugger] ] [ âD[number/list] ]
[ âpna ] [ âFpattern ] [ âl[octal] ] [ â0[octal] ]
[ âIdir ] [ âm[â]module ] [ âM[â]âmodule...â ]
[ âP ] [ âS ] [ âx[dir] ]
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If you
export LANG=en_US
(or "unset LANG") then everything is fine.
$0.02,
j
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