Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?

Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:45:02 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Organization	Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
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* Richard Kettlewell wrote on Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:10:26PM CET:
> These days ‘single’ and “double” quotes are available in Unicode.

And in texinfo, ` and ' resp. `` and '' get translated to those in
the output.  And there are locale settings that translate quotes in
localized strings.

Cheers,
Ralf