How do I use Unicode characters in Pod and perldoc?

perldoc MyMod.pm

pod2text MyMod.pm

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8

$ perldoc perl/MyMod.pm
<standard input>:72: warning: can't find character with input code 159
<standard input>:72: warning: can't find character with input code 150
MyMod(3)              User Contributed Perl Documentation             MyMod(3)

NAME
        MyMod.pm - Just a Test: äöüÃÃÃ

perl v5.10.0                      2008-10-16                          MyMod(3)

15:10:26 $ cat test.pl
=encoding utf-8

=head1 UNICODE CHARACTERS

These are less-than-or-equals characters: '≤', 'E<le>', 'E<0x2264>'.
15:10:31 $ pod2text test.pl
UNICODE CHARACTERS
    These are less-than-or-equals characters: '≤', '≤', '≤'.

15:10:36 $ perldoc test.pl | cat
TEST(1)               User Contributed Perl Documentation              TEST(1)



UNICODE CHARACTERS
       These are less‐than‐or‐equals characters: ’X’, ’X’, ’X’.



perl v5.10.1                      2009‐09‐08                           TEST(1)
15:10:41 $ perldoc -V
Perldoc v3.15, under perl v5.010001 for darwin
15:10:45 $