LOCALE::PO4A::POD.3PM

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Updated: 2025-06-27
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NAME

Locale::Po4a::Pod - convert POD data from/to PO files

SYNOPSIS

    use Locale::Po4a::Pod;
    my $parser = Locale::Po4a::Pod->new();

    # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
    $parser->parse_from_filehandle;

    # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt.
    $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt');

DESCRIPTION

Locale::Po4a::Pod is a module to help the translation of documentation in the POD format (the preferred language for documenting Perl) into other [human] languages.

A new SimplePod parser is now available. Please consider using it instead of the current Pod module. If you encounter any bugs, your reports would be greatly appreciated.

The above warning message will be displayed for a transitional period. To disable it, set the "no-warn-simple" option.

STATUS OF THIS MODULE

I think that this module is rock stable, and there is only one known bug with /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/MainWindow.pod (and some other pages, see below) which contains:

  C<" #n">

Lack of luck, in the po4a version, this was split on the space by the wrapping. As result, in the original version, the man page contains:

 " #n"

and mine contains:

 "" #n""

which is logic since C<foobar> is rewritten "foobar".

Complete list of pages having this problem on my box (from 564 pages; note that it depends on the chosen wrapping column):

 /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/MainWindow.pod
 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/overload.pod
 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlapi.pod
 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perldelta.pod
 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlfaq5.pod
 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlpod.pod
 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlre.pod
 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlretut.pod

INTERNALS

As a derived class from Pod::Parser, Locale::Po4a::Pod supports the same methods and interfaces. See Pod::Parser for all the details; briefly, one creates a new parser with "Locale::Po4a::Pod->new()" and then calls either parse_from_filehandle() or parse_from_file().

AUTHORS

 Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
 Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GPL v2.0 or later (see the COPYING file).

This document was created by using the manual pages.
Time: 05:03:46 GMT, June 27, 2025