Try using the html entity for apostrophe, which is either ' or '.

As an aside, ' may not work under IE; see HTML Entities.

So I am talking about the pod2usage output to the a terminal window. The apostrophes below show up as a strange 'a'.



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=head1 EXAMPLES

The following is an example of this script:

perlsql -query /home/dmathis/cand_query -to 'dbmathis@test.com'
-filename 'filename.xls' -database schema -dbserver db13
-node Res_Score -xmlcol RawXML -header

or

perlsql -query /home/dmathis/cand_query -to 'david@perl.com'
-filename 'filename.xls' -database test -dbserver db13
-node Scorebourd+score -xmlcol RawXML -header

or

perlsql -query ora_query -to 'anders@jungle.org' -dbserver oraserver
-dbuser orauser -dbpassword somepass -oracle -delimiter '\t'.

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After all this is over, all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other.

How do I display an apostrophe "'" in my usage output?

So I am confused. The apostrophe displays fine in my regulare perl output and in emacs or vi. I am just having issues with pod2usage.

I will do some more google searching.


After all this is over, all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other.

What's your LANG environment value?

pod2usage seems to translate ' to ’ when LANG indicates UTF-8 (for instance on my system, with LANG=en_US.UTF-8).

Try doing

export LANG=C
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if that fixes the problem, you should make sure that either you configure your terminal to understand unicode, or you shouldn't be using a UTF-8 locale.

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