Re: [PATCH] Use proper grave accent character

Sébastien Peterson-Boudreau <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the troff(7) (may be groff(7) on your system) input language, the
> ascii grave accent (backtick) character is interpreted as a left
> typographers quotation on output devices that support it. Likewise, a '
> is interpreted as a right quotation.
> 
> IOW, if your terminal supports unicode (along with some other
> variables..),
> 
>        `command`
> 
> in dash.1 can end up being displayed as
> 
>        ‘command‘
> 
> which is not the input the shell expects, and so a user following
> examples in the manual will be very confused.
> 
> The way to typeset the grave accent character as it most likely
> appears on your keyboard, the character the shell expects for command
> expansion, you must use the troff character \(ga
> ---
> src/dash.1 | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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