make install fails: module.pod - Non-ASCII character seen

[mathsen]

Since the update to 8.7.43 I'm not able to compile lmod any longer (even now with 8.7.44).
During "make install" I get:

/usr/bin/core_perl/pod2man ~/Downloads/lmod-install/lmod/8.7.44/share/man/man1/module.pod   > ~/Downloads/lmod-install/lmod/8.7.44/share/man/man1/module.1
~/Downloads/lmod-install/lmod/8.7.44/share/man/man1/module.pod around line 57: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'fr'. Assuming UTF-8
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/core_perl/pod2man line 69.
make: *** [makefile:266: man_pages] Error 255

manually calling
/usr/bin/core_perl/pod2man ~/Downloads/lmod-install/lmod/8.7.44/share/man/man1/module.pod > ~/Downloads/lmod-install/lmod/8.7.44/share/man/man1/module.1

returns the same error message. Adding
=encoding UTF-8
at the beginning of the file fixes the issue for me.

[rtmclay]

I have modified the module.pod generation to add **=encoding UTF-8" at the top of this file. Please test Lmod's "IS714-utf8" branch, to see if it works for you. Thanks for the bug report!

[mathsen]

@rtmclay Thanks for the quick fix! I can confirm that the "IS714-utf8" branch compiles just fine for me.

[rtmclay]

This fix is now live in Lmod 8.7.45. Closing this issue.