Re: [PATCH] Use proper grave accent character

Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.

Thanks for the explanation.  Please repost the patch with this
explanation included in the description.

Cheers,
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