Re: [PATCH] Quote ' as \(aq in manpages

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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
> The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'.  This does
> achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
> apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
> circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.
> 
> Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
> groff_char manpage.

\(aq is not portable to non-GNU roff.  See
  http://bugs.debian.org/507673#65
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2412738&group_id=21935&atid=373747
for a proposed portable solution.

Anders
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