Hi Doug, Doug McIlroy wrote on Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:39:41AM -0500:
> I'm puzzled. How can one "modernize" ascii? One cannot. When i wrote modernize -T ascii rendering i meant: modernize the rendering when groff is run with the "-T ascii" option. > Or to put the question another way, what universally available > character set does -T ascii evoke? I'm not sure what "evoke" is intended to mean here. If "evoke a character set" is intended to mean "produce output using a character set", then the answer is "ASCII". This patch doesn't change the charcter set used for output by "-T ascii". It merely uses a different ASCII output character for \(oq because in my humble opinion - and seemingly the opinion of some others - the current rendering of \(oq in "-T ascii" looks somewhat anachronistic. Yours, Ingo
