I'm using perl 5.8.5 under RHEL4sp4, trying to put POD in my modules these days. perldoc -v gives version v3.13 for that perl. When I attempt to put a usage example in my POD that uses single quotes, perldoc procedes to translate those quotes into three question marks -- ??? -- even though I had indented the code example. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
 
=head1 Foo Method
 
Typical call syntax would be:
 
=over 8
 
  my $ret = $obj->foo( 'LITERAL STRING' );
 
=back
 
=cut

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Through perldoc, I get: 
foo(3)                User Contributed Perl Documentation             
+  foo(3)
 
Foo Method
       Typical call syntax would be:
 
         my $ret = $obj->foo( ???LITERAL STRING??? );
 
perl v5.8.5                       2007-08-07                          
+  foo(3)

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I can workaround this by using double-quotes (for this example), or by inserting a literal ascii escape for the single quote (i think), but this stil bothers me, because the perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html says "I wanted the translator to always leave the ' and ` and " quotes alone, in verbatim mode, so I could slurp in a working program, shift it over four spaces, and have it print out, er, verbatim. "

What am I missing, here?

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