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Hi,

% LC_ALL=C man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump
0000000 270a
        ^^

% LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump
0000000 c2b4 0a00
        ^^^^

I think you must tell roff that you really mean the character 0x27.

Bye, Jörg.

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