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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.236 2019/01/01 08:18:11 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.237 2019/02/23 18:53:54 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 1 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2019 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -267,6 +267,17 @@ instead. The special characters documented in .Xr mandoc_char 7 are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent. +In particular, opening and closing +.Sq single quotes +are represented as characters number 0x60 and 0x27, respectively, +which agrees with all ASCII standards from 1965 to the latest +revision (2012) and which matches the traditional way in which +.Xr roff 7 +formatters represent single quotes in ASCII output. +This correct ASCII rendering may look strange with modern +Unicode-compatible fonts because contrary to ASCII, Unicode uses +the code point U+0060 for the grave accent only, never for an opening +quote. .Pp The following .Fl O |