> people aren't aware that their manpage formatter is > catering to a particular font style that is no longer in > common use. They just see that man(1) outputs "weird quotes."
As man pages are now, one will see weird quotes regardless of how \(oq is rendered. I checked /usr/share/man1/[a-c]* in Fedora Linux--about a 10% sample of man1. Only 2 out of 328 pages contained \(oq or \[oq]. By contrast, 80 pages contained ` (0x60) used as a left quote, usually paired with ' (0x27) but (surprisingly) sometimes with \(aq. Although it might help to render \(oq as ' on man pages, it would be wrong to render 0x60 that way, lest examples in which the distinction matters be mutilated. Doug
