Re: Man and UTF-8.

[Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com>]

Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com>, 2009-11-17, 13:45:
>>>>In the manpage I wrote, I wanted to use English guillemets (‘’). This
>>>>lead to errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff
>>>>understood what I wanted and put nice Unicode guillemets in the ouptut!
>>>>I am quite amazed, even if it looks like a strange hack to me.
>>>
>>> It's not a hack, it's an old, documented behaviour.
>>
>>And sometimes annoying. I have seen command examples in manpages that used
>>fancy Unicode quotes, and didn't work when copied and pasted into a shell.
> 
> Blame the one who wrote a buggy manpage, not groff. Here's a quick guide
> to groff's apostrophe-like characters:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;bug=488213

What about double quotes?

quilt's manpage renders like this in the man viewer: ``pushed on the stack''

I looked at the source and the .1 file has exactly those characters too. So 
what should it have to get them converted into nice-looking Unicode quotes?

-- 
Nicolas

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