I reiterate (after ~17 months) that the suggestion in this bug report is
ill-advised.
ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9) simple _has_ no code point for the acute accent,
any more than ASCII does.
Further, as Jakub Wilk pointed out, it's just plain wrong semantics to
use the \' escape sequence to obtain any fo
If this bug report is asking for a latin9 output driver for groff, it's
should be retitle and moved to wishlist severity.
If it's asking for the semantics of \' to change from acute accent, it's
wontfix.
Regards,
Branden
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* Arjan Opmeer , 2008-06-27, 08:39:
There are manpages that use \' (the escaped version of the apostroph)
to get "pretty" quotes around words. However \' maps to the acute
accent
It's not a bug, it's a documented feature:
`prints as ‘ (left single quotation mark)
'prints as ’ (right
Package: groff-base
Version: 1.18.1.1-20
Severity: normal
There are manpages that use \' (the escaped version of the apostroph) to get
"pretty" quotes around words. However \' maps to the acute accent which is
not present in ISO-8859-15 (and some other LatinX variants). Thus the next
command in th
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