Rob Pierce <r...@2keys.ca> writes: > Good evening, > > Is there a written/unwritten rule for using quotation marks? Do man > pages and web pages follow the same rules? > > When would I use 'this', "this", `this', ``this'', “this“, etc.? > > I guess this can be both a source problem as well as a display problem. > > Any suggestions regarding reasonable expectations for web page/man > page consistency?
There are macros for quotes in manpages in mdoc(7). The rendering is device-dependent - on terminals, it will be unicode quotation marks in unicode locales, and ``this'' in non-unicode locales.
