Re: Github changed pod rendering HTML format

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Joaquin Ferrero
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!.
>
> Today, I saw that Github render iso-8859-1 encoded pod pages with a doubl=
e
> utf8 encoding bug.
>
> Example:
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es/blob/master=
/pod/reviewed/perl.pod
>
> but, one pod utf8 encoded *with* =3Dencoding utf8 tag, renders it well:
>
>
> =C2=A0https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es/blob/master/pod/translated/perl5=
101delta.pod#___top
>
>
> =C2=BFWill we need to change all POD documentation to utf8, definitely?
>

This sounds like a bug in github to me, POD is latin-1 when no
character set is given. As much as I'm in favor of converting to utf8,
github crewing up is not a good reason to do that.

Leon