It doesn't make complete sense, btrott, but indenting one space at the right lines fixed the "join" problem.
beaucoup de mercis,
viel dank,
molti ringraziamenti,
muitos agradecimentos,
muchas gracias,
many thanks,
ybiC
Comment on RE: (2) pod and special characters (that works)
You actually only needed to indent the first word.
The reason why it works is explained in perlpod. If the
paragraph starts with whitespace it is interpreted as a
verbatim paragraph. Otherwise it is not.