brian m. carlson wrote: > On 2021-05-12 at 04:45:53, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > I'm not sure of all that, but my machine uses Arch Linux, it ships with > > groff, I've never used GNU_ROFF=1, and I can copy text with apostrophes > > from the genrated man pages just fine. > > I'll rephrase to be clearer. Solaris 10 is still security supported, > but no major Linux distro is, and I think we'll be both be fine dropping > support for OSes shipped in 2005. > > I'm glad to hear confirmation that things work for you, though. I took at deep-dive and it turns Arch Linux configures groff to convert \' to ', so even if git was doing something wrong, I wouldn't have noticed. Docbook fixed their problem in 2010, and I just sent a patch for asciidoctor to properly fix their code as well. It should work on groff though. The configuration is in: `/usr/share/groff/site-tmac/man.local`, if you want to check what your system is doing. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
