perldoc ESC problem (was: Send email using SMTP)

Hi there.  Since the charset doesn't seem to be the problem, maybe this will
help.

Did some digging and found a bug report against redhat version 8 concerning
terminal codes in perldoc output.
There were comments about this being a bug in groff.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72125

They fixed it by making the default options for less be -isr

You can do this on a linux box with:
LESS="-isr";export LESS

The -r option causes terminal control sequences to be send as is, without
being quoted.

See: man less for more info. there may be some other options for less that
will work better on different operating systems.  There are a couple other
environment variables that look like they may help.  Also, man lesskey
provides various other ways to change the defaults for less on different
OS's.

Mike