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Description
Given a minimal input POD document like this
=encoding utf8
=head1 NAME
Test document
the recently released pandoc 3.6.2, run with pandoc -f pod Minimal.pod (on Linux), outputs
<p>=head1 NAME</p>
<p>Test document</p>instead of the expected
<h1>NAME</h1>
<p>Test document</p>Placing a normal paragraph after the =encoding yields an expected result, i.e.
=encoding utf8
Dummy paragraph.
=head1 NAME
Test document
outputs
<p>Dummy paragraph.</p>
<h1>NAME</h1>
<p>Test document</p>However, adding an extra blank line instead, as in
=encoding utf8
=head1 NAME
Test document
leads to a parsing error:
Error at "Minimal.pod" (line 4, column 1):
unexpected '\n'
expecting Pod paragraph
^which does not seem reasonable.