On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> > Jason McIntyre writes:
> > > in the man page you have used Sq. that will make it mark up the same as
> > > it already does:
> > >
> > >   (`*')
> 
> fwiw there was already an existing sq in the man page. I only fixed the one
> using literal single quotes.
> 

yes, fair enough.

> > There's a difference: Ted uses a UTF-8 locale where Sq shows up as
> > pretty Unicode quotes. Literally typing `' doesn't (not in the terminal,
> > anyway).
> > 
> > mandoc should render Sq as ' ' in ASCII mode. We fixed Dq the same way
> > in both mandoc and groff a couple of years ago (`` '' to " ").
> 
> I would be happy with this.
> 

me too. ingo is on it.

jmc

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