briandfoy/Pod-Perldoc — pull request #1 by mrallen1 (2011-11-16 06:25:49+00:00)
Title: Feedback please?

* On platforms with groff >= 1.20.1, use the -Kutf8 option to properly read
input streams encoded as UTF8 data. (RT #39000)
* On Win32, add a ".bat" extension to the pod2man script name (RT #9531)
* Fix some whitespace and grammar issues in usage
* Remove tabs (replaced with spaces)

I see you're completely dumping the ToMan.pm structure in your topic branch - the main thing is that nroff/groff before 1.20.1 is totally busted handling UTF8. On Mac OS X Lion (10.7), groff is 1.19.1 - it's at least 1.20.1 on most Linuxes, MSWin32 (the most recent groff binaries are 1.20.1) and cgywin