G'day gtrachier,

Welcome to the monastery.

A workaround for this involves adding a non-breaking space after NAME:

=head1 NAMEE<0xa0>
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This fixes both the B<...> and the I<...> issues that you mentioned.

Note that this doesn't work with a plain space ('NAME') or even with an escaped plain space ('NAMEE<0x20>'). See perlpod for more details on escaped characters.

My versions:

$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for darwin-th
+read-multi-2level

$ perl -E 'use Pod::Perldoc; say $Pod::Perldoc::VERSION'
3.15_04
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