You nailed it, thanks! =)

This -R option is responsible for the problems on windows since the pager "more" can't handle "-R".

commenting out this line (#1941 for me)

#local $ENV{MORE} = defined $ENV{MORE} ? "$ENV{MORE} -R" : "-R";

fixed the win-bug for me.

Apparently this was added to fix unicode problems on linux, ignoring that Win has it's own "more" pager.

For those who wonder how to find Pod::Perldoc in their local installation

 >perldoc -l Pod::Perldoc
C:\Perl_524\lib\Pod\Perldoc.pm
[download]

does the trick, even with corrupt pager options.