On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 03:25:13PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Shell quotes ' and ` are displayed wrong in dash.1 man page in Unicode
> environment. Explanation:
>
> In the groff syntax a non-escaped Ascii apostrophe (') is always logical
> (English) right single quotation mark or apostrophe. In Unicode
> environment (e.g. UTF-8 terminal or Postscript) it is displayed as
> U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK. In non-Unicode environment it is
> displayed as U+0027 APOSTROPHE.
>
> Similarly, in the groff syntax a non-escaped grave accent (`) is always
> logical (English) left single quotation mark. In Unicode environment it
> is displayed as U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK and in non-Unicode
> environment as U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT.
>
> When referreing to shell's single quote (') the groff character code
> \(aq should always be used. It displays correctly in all environments.
> Shell's command substitution mark (`) aka. "backtick" or "backquote"
> must be written as \(ga in groff code.
>
> Patch is attached to fix this in dash.1 man page. Patch file is meant to
> be added to debian/diff directory and should apply nicely to Debian dash
> package version 0.5.4-4.
Hi Teemu, thanks for the patch. But somehow I think there must be
another solution, wasn't there some discussion around this on
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Regards, Gerrit.
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