in reply to Re^6: perldoc Bold, Italic etc
in thread perldoc Bold, Italic etc

My guess is that you have another terminal now which isn't enabled to render escape sequences.

But it's still guessing, not enough infos to tell and I don't have a Linux at hand to check

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^8: perldoc Bold, Italic etc
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 01, 2021 at 13:06 UTC
    OK I checked with an old VM image with ubuntu14

    something like

    > PERLDOCDEBUG=2 perldoc tst.pod

    will show you plenty of details, like the found formatters and nroff binaries.

    This might give you a hint how the two systems are differing.

    (On a side note: the supposedly italic text was underlined in my terminal)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      Life is too short to fret over cosmetics (I retired from programming professionally more than 10 years ago)
      Anyhoo: the quick-fix is just to create an alias as I mentioned earlier.
      A little piece of Perly-bandaid and the problem has gone for me. ;-)
      Thanks so much for the comments & input!