Using named HTML entities causes them to be output as a sequence of two
characters:
=item * E<216> Ø E<Oslash>
produces:
<listitem>Ø Ø Ã˜ </listitem>
The %HTML_Escapes hash in Pod::SAX::Parser maps Oslash to "\xC3\x98",
which is then passed directly to the characters method. This is wrong
because the Perl SAX documentation states:
All handler methods have a single argument; a hash reference. Hash
values are Unicode strings (scalars with UTF-8 flag on).
So the appropriate mapping here is:
Oslash => "\xd8"
This is the case for all entities outside of ASCII that Pod::SAX
understands.
RT for rt.cpan.org