Bug #103298 for podlators: The quotes option is a bit limiting

Fri Apr 03 21:31:06 2015 guillem [...] hadrons.org - Ticket created

Subject:	The quotes option is a bit limiting
Date:	Sat, 4 Apr 2015 03:30:45 +0200
To:	bug-podlators [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Guillem Jover <guillem [...] hadrons.org>

Hi! Both the pod2man/pod2text --quotes and Pod::Man quotes options allow to specify either a single quote or both quotes (using two or four bytes), but that pretty much makes it only possible to use stuff like <'>, <">, <''>, <"">, (the ugly) <`'>, (the even uglier) <``''> or <«»> (which uses two bytes each). Other Unicode characters cannot be used because they might take more than two bytes, like <“”>, <‘’>, <“„>, <‘‚>, etc. which take three bytes each. Or groff glyphs such as <\(lq\(rq>, etc. It would be nice, and more future-proof, if there where two options to specify left and right quotes. Thanks, Guillem

Fri Apr 17 00:05:17 2015 RRA [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #103298] The quotes option is a bit limiting
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:05:08 -0700
To:	"Guillem Jover via RT" <bug-podlators [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Russ Allbery <rra [...] cpan.org>

"Guillem Jover via RT" <bug-podlators@rt.cpan.org> writes: Show quoted text

> Both the pod2man/pod2text --quotes and Pod::Man quotes options allow > to specify either a single quote or both quotes (using two or four > bytes), but that pretty much makes it only possible to use stuff like > <'>, <">, <''>, <"">, (the ugly) <`'>, (the even uglier) <``''> or > <«»> (which uses two bytes each).

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> Other Unicode characters cannot be used because they might take more > than two bytes, like <“”>, <‘’>, <“„>, <‘‚>, etc. which take three > bytes each. Or groff glyphs such as <\(lq\(rq>, etc.

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> It would be nice, and more future-proof, if there where two options > to specify left and right quotes.

It was silly that the existing code didn't support any even-length quotes string and just divide it in half to find the left and right quote, so I made that change for the next release. I agree that separate lquote and rquote options are even better, and will leave this bug open until I've had a chance to implement that. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker $^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD, 00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.), 01,pnn,y{ rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/ #y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print

Fri Apr 17 00:05:18 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun Sep 25 15:41:18 2016 RRA [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 4.08 added

Sun Sep 25 15:41:18 2016 RRA [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

podlators 4.08 now supports setting both the left quote and right quote independently.

Sun Sep 25 15:41:24 2016 RRA [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Sun Sep 25 15:41:29 2016 RRA [...] cpan.org - Taken