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in reply to perldoc Bold, Italic etc

Try to

export PERLDOC=-oterm
or define an alias like
builtin alias perldoc="perldoc -oterm "
Assure, that Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm is installed and accessible. If that does not work, try -oansi instead of -oterm.

Edit: fixed alias definition taking into account that some distros come with an alias() function.

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Re^2: perldoc Bold, Italic etc
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 29, 2021 at 23:16 UTC
    This is surely a valid workaround, but IMHO a system's Perl should do all this out of the box.

    So he should really try perldoc -D on both versions to see what changed and file a bug report if necessary.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery