* Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>, 2009-11-07, 10:54:
Many manual pages use the \' groff sequence with the intention to
express an apostrophe. This is incorrect, as \' in rendered as an acute
accent. It would be nice if lintian detected such cases.
Related bug: #507673.
Hm, any ideas on how to tell when an acute accent really was intended? Or
is that rare enough that it's very unlikely?
Most likely it was not intended. :) The only legitimate use of that
character I am aware of is being a part of a character map like:
groff(7)
groff_char(7)
iso-8859-1(7)
According to Markus Kuhn[1], "[t]he acute and grave accent characters
[...] have no common use in European text."
[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html
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