| Subject: | groff produces many errors with Unicode output. |
With the old version,
$ perl -MPod::Perldoc -e 'print "$Pod::Perldoc::VERSION\n"';
3.15_02
$ perldoc /home/ben/projects/Lingua-JA-Moji/lib/Lingua/JA/Moji.pod
gives XXX where the Unicode characters occur:
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SYNOPSIS
Convert various types of Japanese characters into one another.
use Lingua::JA::Moji qw/kana2romaji romaji2kana/;
use utf8;
my $romaji = kana2romaji ('XXXXX');
# $romaji is now 'aiueo'.
my $kana = romaji2kana ($romaji);
# $kana is now 'XXXXX'.
===============
With the new version, installed from github, and run via the following
script in the top directory,
#!/home/ben/software/install/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use lib 'lib';
use Pod::Perldoc;
my $dir = '/home/ben/projects/Lingua-JA-Moji/lib/Lingua/JA';
my $file = "$dir/Moji.pod";
@ARGV = ($file);
Pod::Perldoc->run ();
the Unicode characters are appearing:
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
Convert various types of Japanese characters into one another.
use Lingua::JA::Moji qw/kana2romaji romaji2kana/;
use utf8;
my $romaji = kana2romaji ('あいうえお');
# $romaji is now 'aiueo'.
my $kana = romaji2kana ($romaji);
# $kana is now 'アイウエオ'.
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However, there is a stream of errors from groff like this:
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<standard input>:99: warning: can't find character with input code 151
<standard input>:99: warning: can't find character with input code 147
<standard input>:140: warning: can't find character with input code 158
<standard input>:246: warning: can't find character with input code 146
<standard input>:265: warning: can't find character with input code 143
<standard input>:265: warning: can't find character with input code 145
<standard input>:297: warning: can't find character with input code 142
<standard input>:361: warning: can't find character with input code 149
<standard input>:367: warning: can't find character with input code 144
<standard input>:367: warning: can't find character with input code 153
<standard input>:452: warning: can't find character with input code 148
<standard input>:478: warning: can't find character with input code 155
<standard input>:479: warning: can't find character with input code 156
<standard input>:515: warning: can't find character with input code 150
<standard input>:615: warning [p 7, 10.2i]: can't break line
troff: Failed assertion at line 510, file
`/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/roff/troff/../../../../../../contrib/gro
ff/src/roff/troff/input.cpp'.
grotty:<standard input>:6282:warning: no final `x stop' command
groff: troff: Signal 6 (core dumped)
===============
The "can't find character with input code" error originates from groff
in file
/usr/src/contrib/groff/src/roff/troff/node.cpp
on FreeBSD.
The above pod file is available on cpan as
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/BKB/Lingua-JA-Moji-
0.10/lib/Lingua/JA/Moji.pod
if it is required for checking.