Re: [PATCH] Use proper grave accent character

Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau <[email protected]> Sat, 9 May 2026 15:20:35 -0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dash
Message-ID <af9681mqftmoCPdK@HQ>
> Sorry could you please explain why this makes any difference because
> they look identical to my untrained eye.

No worries! In the troff(7)* language, the character ` becomes a left
quotation on typesetters supporting it, and ' becomes a right quotation.

IOW, if your terminal supports unicode (along with a few other variables),

	`command`

in the input code can end up being displayed as

	‘command‘

which is not the input the shell expects!
The way to typeset the ` character is with either the \` escape sequence
or the \(ga character -- both should be portable across different
*roff's according to groff_char(7), so I opted for the latter.

Hope this clarifies :)
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* manual page might be groff(7) on your system.
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S.