See the following table from groff_char(7):
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Keycap Appearance and meaning Special character and meaning │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│" " neutral double quote \[dq] neutral double quote │
│' ’ closing single quote \[aq] neutral apostrophe │
│- ‐ hyphen \- or \[-] minus sign/Unix dash │
│\ (escape character) \e or \[rs] reverse solidus │
│^ ˆ modifier circumflex \(ha circumflex/caret/“hat” │
│` ‘ opening single quote \(ga grave accent │
│~ ˜ modifier tilde \(ti tilde │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Reviewed-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geoff Clare <gwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <groff@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Transform ' into \(aq [Branden].
Hi Branden,
I took the freedom to take your message as a reviewed-by. Please confirm :)
Cheers,
Alex
zic.8 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8
index 7fb51dde..4ef2482c 100644
--- a/zic.8
+++ b/zic.8
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ .SH FILES
.q + .
To allow for future extensions,
an unquoted name should not contain characters from the set
-.q !$%&'()*,/:;<=>?@[\e]^`{|}~ .
+.q !$%&\(aq()*,/:;<=>?@[\e]\(ha\(ga{|}\(ti .
.TP
.B FROM
Gives the first year in which the rule applies.
--
2.38.1
