diff -ur debconf.orig/doc/Makefile debconf.0-no-utf8-to-pod2man/doc/Makefile
--- debconf.orig/doc/Makefile	2009-10-01 18:35:16.000000000 +0200
+++ debconf.0-no-utf8-to-pod2man/doc/Makefile	2010-05-11 19:17:18.111544663 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 all: manpages
 	./graph.pl `find .. -name \*.pm` > hierarchy.txt
 
-pod2man=pod2man -c Debconf -r '' --utf8
+pod2man=pod2man -c Debconf -r ''
 manpages:
 	cd man && po4a po4a/po4a.cfg
 	for pod in man/*.pod; do \