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.

Joost, the export worked. The LANG env is set to =en_US.UTF-8.

Now I have got to figure out how I am going to handle this. There are at least 150 different linux boxes at work that I will be using this on.

Most everyone at work is connecting to these boxes via putty.

Do you have any advice on how I should proceed which would ensure that the apostrophes will display correctly on any of these boxes?

Thanks for your help

Best Regards


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

I don't know putty that well, but I assume you can set it to UTF-8 mode. Possibly you could make UTF-8 the default.

That would probably be the more useful option (the other option is to disable UTF-8 entirely)

See also http://www.earth.li/~huggie/blog/tech/mobile/putty-utf-8-trick.html for a way to force putty to utf-8 from the server.

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