Stepan Kasal wrote: > > In short, shell code snippets shall use \(aq for single quotes and \` > for the "backticks"
Excellent, thanks! I'm thinking of pushing the attached. I'll wait at least until your mail hits the coreutils archives. bug-coreutils@gnu.org seems mega slow at the moment? Pádraig.
>From 4000c35ae3546aca05ece49ffa01ba2a763000b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <p...@draigbrady.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:41:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Remove curly quotes from shell examples in man pages Use \(aq rather than a literal ' as groff will convert apostrophe to a right quote (\u2029) in utf8 locales for example. Stepan Kasal details the issue and fix here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-12/msg00124.html --- man/du.x | 2 +- man/help2man | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/du.x b/man/du.x index b170369..85b9ff4 100644 --- a/man/du.x +++ b/man/du.x @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ will match any files whose names end in .BR .o . Therefore, the command .IP -.B du --exclude='*.o' +.B du --exclude=\(aq*.o\(aq .PP will skip all files and subdirectories ending in .BR .o diff --git a/man/help2man b/man/help2man index cbdaf06..66d715f 100755 --- a/man/help2man +++ b/man/help2man @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ and .B %s programs are properly installed at your site, the command .IP -.B info coreutils '%s invocation' +.B info coreutils \(aq%s invocation\(aq .PP should give you access to the complete manual. EOT -- 1.5.3.6
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