Checking the docs for perldoc, it seems that it does pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER so that suggests the problem might be with nroff not handling utf-8 characters. Sure enough, Google suggests http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2009/05/fixing_the_pod.html as a possible fix. Good luck with that. -- Alex Beamish Toronto, Ontario aka talexb