An annoyance I have with the man pages on Debian and Ubuntu is the conversion of ' to ’ which means I can't just cut and paste example code. This only occurs when nroff is targetting UTF8. It also occurred in Pod::Usage output which is using Pod::Man somewhere internally. I've found some discussion online, but the threads usually end saying "fix the man page". Is the output from Pod::Man broken in any sense?

My current work around is:

sudo cp /usr/bin/nroff /usr/local/bin/nroff
sudo vi /usr/local/bin/nroff
# Add in "T=-Tlatin1" appropriately
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If there's a saner way to handle the issue I'd love to hear about it.

Brad
update: export MANOPT='-E latin1' prods man in the right direction