Done using a sequence of regular expressions like this:
perl -pi.bak -e 's{C</}{F</}g' `git ls-files \*.pod` generator/actions.ml
perl -pi.bak -e 's{C<C:\\}{F<C:\\}g' `git ls-files \*.pod` generator/actions.ml
[etc]
and then tediously checking every change by hand.
This changes podwrapper so that the input (POD) files should not
contain an =encoding directive. However they must be UTF-8.
Podwrapper then adds the '=encoding utf8' directive back during final
generation.
This in particular avoids problems with nested =encoding directives in
fragments. These break POD, and are undesirable anyway.