Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>, 2009-11-17, 22:53: >>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. -- Nicolas I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my newsreader and another on email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
