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Shlomi Fish | 24 Mar 2012 19:04
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Fw: Two Documents Restored from perl.net.au


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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:00:32 +0200
From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif <at> shlomifish.org>
To: Perl in Israel <perl <at> perl.org.il>
Subject: Two Documents Restored from perl.net.au

Hi all.

http://perl.net.au/ was a somewhat popular wiki for all things Perl. Then it
was heavily spammed, and afterwards went completely offline for many months,
and the admins have become busy. Luckily, in the past days I was able to restore
some of the contents from the Wayback Machine, and place them here and here:

* http://perl-begin.org/FAQs/freenode-perl/ - the Freenode #perl’s FAQ.

* http://perl-begin.org/humour/ - a page collecting Perl Humour.

I plan to restore more stuff.

For how I restored it: I tried several scripts (and a CPAN module) I found
online (which were hard to come by, and I was disappointed that apparently the
Wayback Machine does not provide a Web API), and eventually used this script
written in Python:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286224-pulling-stuff-out-of-the-internet-archive-wayback-/

I had to modify it to not be recursive.
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Joaquin Ferrero | 25 Mar 2012 03:10
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Github changed pod rendering HTML format

Hi!.

Today, I saw that Github render iso-8859-1 encoded pod pages with a double utf8 encoding bug.

Example:

	https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es/blob/master/pod/reviewed/perl.pod

but, one pod utf8 encoded *with* =encoding utf8 tag, renders it well:

	https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es/blob/master/pod/translated/perl5101delta.pod#___top

¿Will we need to change all POD documentation to utf8, definitely?

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Leon Timmermans | 25 Mar 2012 12:04
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Re: Github changed pod rendering HTML format

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Joaquin Ferrero
<explorer <at> joaquinferrero.com> wrote:
> Hi!.
>
> Today, I saw that Github render iso-8859-1 encoded pod pages with a double
> utf8 encoding bug.
>
> Example:
>
>        https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es/blob/master/pod/reviewed/perl.pod
>
> but, one pod utf8 encoded *with* =encoding utf8 tag, renders it well:
>
>
>  https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es/blob/master/pod/translated/perl5101delta.pod#___top
>
>
> ¿Will we need to change all POD documentation to utf8, definitely?
>

This sounds like a bug in github to me, POD is latin-1 when no
character set is given. As much as I'm in favor of converting to utf8,
github crewing up is not a good reason to do that.

Leon
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