theory/pod-simple — pull request #37 by grantm (2012-08-11 10:55:38+00:00)
Title: Add 'parse_characters' option

This commit adds a new option to tell the parser that the supplied POD source is a Perl character string rather than a byte string and no attempt should be made to decode it.

Without this option, the only way to safely parse POD source which has been generated on-the-fly (rather than read from a file of bytes) is to encode the strings to UTF8 before passing them to the parser which will then decode them back to Perl's internal format.