Otherwise the man page cannot contain any non-7-bit-ASCII characters.
The test error seen was:
Wide character in print at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Test2/Formatter/TAP.pm line 112.
t/910-pod.t ................
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/1 subtests
---
generator/perl.ml | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/generator/perl.ml b/generator/perl.ml
index 3a87f1634..d1b4763b8 100644
--- a/generator/perl.ml
+++ b/generator/perl.ml
@@ -664,6 +664,8 @@ and generate_perl_pm () =
generate_header HashStyle LGPLv2plus;
pr "\
+=encoding utf8
+
=pod
=head1 NAME
--
2.12.0