marcus ramberg » pod http://marcus.nordaaker.com nordaaker Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:29:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Fixing the POD synopsis in OSX http://marcus.nordaaker.com/2009/05/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx/ http://marcus.nordaaker.com/2009/05/fixing-the-pod-synopsis-in-osx/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 10:29:56 +0000 marcus http://marcus.nordaaker.com/?p=2152 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 -.

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