• Fixing the POD synopsis in OSX
Having problems copying example code from POD and getting invalid characters in your Perl? Apparently this is a problem with nroff on OS X (According to my linux hacking peeps), but the solution is quite simple. Just stuff this in your .profile or whatever ;)
alias perldoc='perldoc -t'
And your pod is rendered in glorious pure-text, without using weird characters for ‘ and -.
[...] I was delighted to see a blog post by marcus ramberg called Fixing the POD synopsis in OSX wherein he fingers nroff as being the problem and gives a simple solution: alias perldoc=’perldoc [...]
May 19th, 2009 at 23:53