Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Nicolas Alvarez <[email protected]>, 2009-11-17, 13:45: >>>>In the manpage I wrote, I wanted to use English guillemets (‘’). This >>>>lead to errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff >>>>understood what I wanted and put nice Unicode guillemets in the ouptut! >>>>I am quite amazed, even if it looks like a strange hack to me. >>> >>> It's not a hack, it's an old, documented behaviour. >> >>And sometimes annoying. I have seen command examples in manpages that used >>fancy Unicode quotes, and didn't work when copied and pasted into a shell. > > Blame the one who wrote a buggy manpage, not groff. Here's a quick guide > to groff's apostrophe-like characters: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;bug=488213
What about double quotes? quilt's manpage renders like this in the man viewer: ``pushed on the stack'' I looked at the source and the .1 file has exactly those characters too. So what should it have to get them converted into nice-looking Unicode quotes? -- Nicolas (I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my newsreader and another on email.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
