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-rw-r--r--pod/perlpod.pod4
-rw-r--r--pod/pod2html.PL2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlpod.pod b/pod/perlpod.pod
index dcf615daa3..9fb6b4e21b 100644
--- a/pod/perlpod.pod
+++ b/pod/perlpod.pod
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ here and in commands:
E<gt> A literal >
(these are optional except in other interior
sequences and when preceded by a capital letter)
- E<nnn> Character number nnn.
+ E<n> Character number n
+ E<html> Some non-numeric HTML entity, such
+ as E<Agrave>
=back
diff --git a/pod/pod2html.PL b/pod/pod2html.PL
index b41e0c37d6..cc21b0703f 100644
--- a/pod/pod2html.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2html.PL
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ sub scan_thing{ # scan a chunk for later references
my($cmd,$title,$pod) = @_;
$_ = $title;
s/\n$//;
+ s/E<(\d+)>/&#$1;/g;
s/E<(.*?)>/&$1;/g;
# remove any formatting information for the headers
s/[SFCBI]<(.*?)>/$1/g;
@@ -507,6 +508,7 @@ sub pre_escapes { # twiddle these, and stay up late :-)
s/&/noremap("&amp;")/ge;
s/<</noremap("&lt;&lt;")/eg;
s/([^ESIBLCF])</$1\&lt\;/g;
+ s/E<(\d+)>/\&#$1\;/g; # embedded numeric special
s/E<([^\/][^<>]*)>/\&$1\;/g; # embedded special
}
}